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43. Sherman Kent, Memorandum for the Director, “Implications of an Announcement by the President that the US would Conduct Overhead Reconnaissance of Cuba... ," 8 October 1962 INTELLIGENCE AGENCY OFFICE OF NATIONAL ESTIMATES 8 October 1962 4 SUBJECT: Implications of an Announcement by the President ' that the US would Conduct Overhead Reconnaissance { of Cuba, and of the Actual Reconnaissance Thereafter NOTE: The following are the canclusions reached by a panel of members of the Board of National Estimates and of the ONE Staff 1, The President's announcement would be vigorously condemned by the Soviets and the Cubans as evincing an intention to commit acts of international aggression. 2. The weight of publicly expressed opinion in the free world would probably condemm the announcement as threaten- ing a marked increase in international tensions. Many Latin Americans would probably look upon it as incompatible with the principle of non-intervention, On the other hand, Gove i GEC RaET Lect an arom comenpace | 119