John C. Stennis Photograph Collection

 

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Senator John C. Stennis in unidentified location talking about Cuban Cave Storage. Maj. Gen. Alva R. Fitch, the Army's top intelligence officer, poses March 6 with Chairman John Stennis, D-Miss. before giving the Senate Armed Services Committee an evaluation of the current Cuban military situation. Gen. Fitch said that thousands of caves in Cuba probably are being used to store Soviet stocks of "ammunition, supplies, vehicles and even aircraft. Intelligence sources believe, he added, that the Soviets did remove all strategic missiles from the island.

Contributor(s)

Stennis, John C. (John Cornelius), 1901-1995

Subjects

John C. Stennis Military Alva R. Fitch Cuban Cave Storage Stennis

Time Period

1960-1969

Object Type

image

Format (Original)

1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.

Format (Digital)

JPEG

Digital ID

jcs_1707_2.jpg

Physical ID

JCS 1707

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Deeply Rooted

Source

Mississippi State University Libraries, Mississippi Political Collections, Senator Stennis in other places

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)

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Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.

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