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78. (Continued) 3. The buildup in Cuba has been taking place in stages which can be distinguished reasonably well. The first deliveries of men and equipment arrived in late July, and through most of August they appear to have been primarily of equipment for SAM and coastal defense missile installations. Work started first in western Cubs snd gradually spread throughout the island. Eight of the 12 Ko-~ mar guided-missile buats vere delivered in August, as well as some land armam-2ts. We cannot deter- mine precisely when the first sauipment for MRBM/ IRBM installations arrived, but available informa~ tion suggests work on the first site began about 29 August and the first missiles of this kind probably arrived in the first half of September, Two top-level meetings between the Cubans and Khru- shchev were held in this period; one when Raul Castro visited Moscow in July at the start of the shipments and one in late August - early September when Che Guevara traveled to the USSR. 4, Since early September, military shipments probably have included equipment for all the mis- Sile installations as well as aircraft and land armaments. Most of the 39 or more MIG-21s arrived during the first week of September. Two shipments of IL-28 bombers--22 aircraft in all-~-appear to have arrived in late September, and a third ship- ment may be en route. There is no sign of a slow- down in the military shipments; about.20 Soviet vessels are en route with probable military car- goes, and one or two are leaving Soviet ports al- most daily.