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    "ocrText": "SANITIZED COPY\n15\nTOP SECRET SENSITIVE\nSummary Record of NSC Executive Committee Meeting No. 5,\nOctober 25, 1962, 5:00 PM\nDirector McCone gave an intelligence briefing which contained no major\nnew information. He listed fifteen ships en route to Cuba, among them\nthe Graznyy, which is one of three oil tankers with deck tanks probably\ncontaining ammonia.\nMr. McCone noted that a Bloc ship would be entering the Panama Canal\non November 2. It would be searched, as have Bloc ships transiting\nthe Canal during the past seven years.\nMr. McCone said he had no information of any unusual developments in\nEurope.\nSecretary Dillon noted that there had been a run on gold in Germany\nand to a lesser extent in London. His conclusion was that these gold\npurchases reflected the fear of the buyers.\nSecretary McNamara said that the East German passenger ship Voelker\nFreundschaft was at the Cuban barrier. It is a fairly large ship, 525\nfeet long, and has been ordered to report its position every four hours.\nHe said we faced a decision as to whether or not to stop it.\nleased as a result of this review.\nAdditional material has been re-\nSecretary McNamara reported that the Lebanese ship which was to have\nbeen boarded had turned back before crossing the barrier. Late informa-\ntion on the Graznyy revealed that it was lying dead in the water. The\nresult is that to date no ship has yet been boarded.\nSecretary Rusk reported on diplomatic developments. He said the ques-\ntion was whether we can get Soviet strategic missiles out of Cuba or at\nleast under UN control. He added that if there was any prospect of suc-\nBy\ncess in following a political track, we would have to keep heavy pressure\nVOL\non the Russians. He reported that Soviet representative Zorin in New\nX\nYork was furious about U Thant's proposals for U.S./USSR talks under\nPUBLISHED IN FRUS 1961-63\nUN sponsorship in New York, but that Khrushchev had agreed to such\nNARA, Date 12/18/97\nSANITIZED\ntalks. Our position would be that during these next two days of prelim-\ninary discussions we must somehow stop the missile buildup in Cuba.\n# DOC\nWe must know what is going on at the IRBM sites in Cuba and we need\nto know whether warheads have actually been delivered to Cuba. Shortly\n73\nwe must decide if the Soviet signals which they are sending us mean they\nare getting ready to talk or whether they are getting ready to attack us.\nTOP SECRET SENSITIVE"
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