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12, (Continued) ‘ental ws 4, General Carter asked DD/R on 5 September to initiate steps for fixing ie ia to cover Cuba. 5. The President and Secretaries of State and Defense wexe briefed by General Carter late 6 September of a more detailed readout of the 29 August mission which led our analysts to suspect the presence of another kind of missile site--possibly surface-to-surface+-at Banes, The White House put a complete freeze on this information; however, Bundy gave an OK to'put the analysts to work on providing information to the policymakers ona need~to -know basis but without normal dis- ttibution, 6. USIB was brought up to date in executive session at its 7 September meeting on information concerning the SA-2 sites, the new unknown site at Banes, ahd also the freezing atmosphere of the White House. General Carter requested all members to advise their principals and asked also to be alerted immediately if NSA came up with further information. 7. This was the climate in the Community in early September when a U~2 had just violated the Soviet Far East; when another U-2 was lost on 8 September over the Chinese mainland; and when your first cable of 7 September arrived: "Question very much if C-package will be helpful Cuba and urge frequent repeat missions of recent *reconnais~+ sance operations which Gilpatric advises informative. Also I support use of RF-10l's if necessary. My hunch is we might face prospect of Soviet short-range surface~ to-surface missiles of portable types in Cuba which could command important targets in Southeast U. S. and possibly Latin America and the Caribbean areas," 8. General Carter, as related above and follows, had already urged use of RF-101's relative to your "hunch" about missiles, General Carter recollects showing your cable to Mr. Bundy the following day, Saturday afternoon. There is no evidence that the information was passed outside of the Agency, presumably because it was a reaffirmation of a position you had already taken before Secretaries Rusk and McNamara, General Taylor and Mess rs. Johnson, Gilpatric and Bundy on 10, 21 and 23 August.