“In recent weeks, the Soviets have quietly doubled their jet fighters and fighter-bombers on the island while at the same time withdrawing around 3,000 [Soviet] combat troops… The latest U-2 photographs, showing increased numbers of Russian planes on or near Cuban airfields, have forced U.S. intelligence experts to raise their estimates from 150 to 300 Soviet planes in Cuba. [Yet the new CIA estimate] which is being hotly challenged by Army and Navy intelligence, reports that 14,000 Russian troops have left Cuba since last year’s missile crises.”
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