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    "title": "Summary Record of NSC Executive Committee Meeting No. 7 October 27, 1962, 10:00 AM",
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    "ocrText": "TOP SECRET - SENSITIVE\n- 4 -\nKhrushchev took in his private letter was different and we were studying\nthese proposals. In the meantime, however, time is running out.\nThe President interrupted to take a telephone call from Ambassador\nStevenson in New York. He resumed the discussion by saying that\nKhrushchev obviously is attempting to limit our freedom of action in\nCuba by introducing the question of the missile bases outside this\nhemisphere.\nMr. Bundy read a draft press statement and Mr. Gilpatric read a state-\nment which he had prepared.\nMr. Alexis Johnson reported that he had just been informed that the\nTurkish Government had issued a press statement saying that the\nRussian proposal with respect to Jupiters in Turkey was not conceivable.\n(As the remainder of the Soviet public statement was received in the\nCabinet Room, it appeared that the Russian base proposal involved not\nmerely Turkey but all of NATO.)\nMr. Sorensen introduced a draft statement which was read by the group.\nRevisions were made in the Gilpatric draft, which was issuedsshortly\nthereafter in the form attached. This statement emphasized the offensive\nweapons buildup in Cuba.\nThe Attorney General said that the statement might make people think\nthat if the Russians stopped the missile buildup in Cuba, we would be\nwilling to withdraw our missiles from Turkey. He desired that we make\ndoubly clear that Turkish NATO missiles were one problem and that\nCuba was an entirely separate problem.\nMr. Gilpatric stated that it was crucial for us to stand on the position that\nwe will not negotiate with the Russians while the Soviet missile threat is\ngrowing in Cuba.\nThe President recalled that over a year ago we wanted to get the Jupiter\nmissiles out of Turkey because they had become obsolete and of little\nmilitary value. If the missiles in Cuba added 50% to Soviet nuclear capa-\nbility, then to trade these missiles for those in Turkey would be of great\nmilitary value. But we are now in the position of risking war in Cuba and\nin Berlin over missiles in Turkey which are of little military value. From\nthe political point of view, it would be hard to get support on an airstrike\nTOP SECRET SENSITIVE"
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