Summary Record of NSC Executive Committee Meeting No. 8 October 27, 1962 4:00 PM
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October 27, 1962, 4:00 PM
Summary Record of NSC Executive Committee Meeting No. 8
mission. Secretary McNamara reported on today's daylight reconnaissance
to One mission aborted for mechanical reasons, according
said to have encountered ground fire.
preliminary reports. One plane is overdue and several are
Secretary McNamara again recommended night reconnaissance
a report on today's daylight mission (the night mission was
missions. full The President delayed a decision on night flights pending
later called off).
Khrushchev. The President added to the draft an offer to discuss
There followed a discussion of a draft letter from the President to
dicted with the Russians the proposals they had made public. He
The that Khrushchev would say we had rejected his pre-
formulation included a comment that Khrushchev must proposal.
The that matters relating to NATO must be discussed at a later realize time.
letter was approved in a revised form.
A of message the to U Thant was discussed and approved. The
Cuba as a condition to discussion of various other problems.
message was to obtain the halting of work on the bases purpose in
the Secretary Rusk reported that one of our U-2 planes had overflown
Soviet Union by accident due to navigational error. Soviet
fighters were scrambled from a base near Wrangel Island.
this incident.
Secretary thought that the Russians would make a loud fuss about The
to The do President decided not to make the incident public, but be prepared
so as soon as the Soviets publicized it.
would The President asked whether we wanted to continue to that we
the next few hours we should emphasize our position that if
talk only about the missiles in Cuba. He believed say that for
Russians discuss will halt missile activity in Cuba we would be the to
not be NATO problems with the Russians. He felt that prepared would
in a position to offer any trade for several days. He we did
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