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...therefore not surprising that the press, forced to print Senator Thurmond's accounts of Cuba or none of all, has reported with increasing favor and prominence we ultra-conservative demands for invasion. Even in the narrowest political sense, the press ban policy seems half-defeating...
...that will not go away. The Kennedy Administration was stung by charges that it was reacting ineffectively to the Russian military presence in Cuba. New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating claimed that the Soviet's "mediumrange missile sites" remain. South Carolina's Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond declared that upwards of 100 ballistic missiles "with a 1,100-to 2,200-mile range" were stored in "underground facilities" in Cuba. Indiana's Republican Representative Donald C. Bruce said that he had information about some 40 "offensive missiles" still in Cuba. At last, Kennedy ordered Defense Secretary...
...recent weeks, said Keating, another Russian ship arrived with military hardware. The Communist buildup is rapidly approaching the point, he said, where the U.S. will find it "impossible to get the Communists out of Cuba with conventional weapons." Taking off from there. South Carolina's Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond charged that, contrary to official U.S. estimates of 16,000 to 17,000 Soviet troops in Cuba, the Russians actually have between 30,000 and 40,000 men on the island. Added Thurmond: There are from 100 to 200 ballistic missiles still in Cuba...
...Services Preparedness Subcommittee, promised a full-dress investigation. The Kennedy Administration did not seem alarmed. A Pentagon spokesman issued a statement repeating the position that the Reds had "broken up" their-missile bases and that two new shipments showed "no evidence of offensive weapons." The Defense Department sharply denied Thurmond's report of 30,000 to 40,000 troops. Even so, Secretary of State Dean Rusk conceded that "there is a significant Soviet military presence in Cuba...
...Thurmond's estimates might be inflated. But it was worth remembering that Keating was talking about missile bases last fall well before the U.S. admitted the presence of any offensive weapons in Cuba. As it turned out, a good bit of his information was correct...