6 ottob 1978 anni - US reconnaissance flight photographs Soviet tank brigade in Cuba

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https://www.nytimes.com/1979/09/13/archives/soviet-brigade-how-the-us-traced-it-how-dispute-developed.html

...a camera satellite orbiting high over Cuba trained a powerful lens on a small area a few miles southwest of Havana and “sure enough,” an intelligence officer recalled, “there was the brigade on maneuver with tanks, personnel carriers and mechanized infantry.”

The radio signal had been a Soviet request to the Cuban Army for permission to use the San Pedro maneuver grounds, a few miles west of Havana's José Marti International Airport, to exercise the “brigade” composed of a rocket battalion, a tank battalion and two infantry battalions‐totaling 2,300 to 3.000 men.

Well‐Camouflaged Area

San Pedro is several miles west of large Soviet military complex where there is a well‐camouflaged storage area as well as a headquarters commanded by a Soviet major general. The mile‐square complex, called Lourdes, also includes large dish‐shaped radar receiver terminals at a site called Torrens for intercepting communications from American missile tests and from satellites.

On Aug. 20, three days later; other American satellite photographs showed San Pedro empty and military equipment being stowed away at Lourdes. The troops and officers, it was determined, were garrisoned at two military camps nearby—the larger part eight miles east of Lourdes at Santiago de las Vegas, and the smaller one 11 miles to the east Managua.

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