The Mikoyans Visit Havana
When Anastas Mikoyan and his son visited Havana in the immediate aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, they found a very different city than they had seen on their first visit less than three years earlier.
When Anastas Mikoyan and his son visited Havana in the immediate aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, they found a very different city than they had seen on their first visit less than three years earlier.
This Gallup poll from September 1962 illustrates how prominently Cuba figured in American public opinion before the Cuban Missile Crisis.
As we come up towards the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, there are several new books coming out. Here are some of them.
The U.S. naval quarantine of Cuba took effect at 2PM GMT on October 24, 1962. The CIA was watching the movements of Soviet ships very closely.
Archival Source: National Security File: Intelligence, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.
Archival Source: National Security File: Intelligence, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.
Archival Source: National Security File: Intelligence, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.
Archival Source: National Security File: Intelligence, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.
Archival Source: National Security File: Intelligence, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.
Archival Source: National Security File: Intelligence, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.
Archival Source: National Security File: Intelligence, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.
JFK called it “one hell of a gamble.” With a little less flourish, the analysts of the CIA called it a “miscalculated risk.” In this 156-page Top Secret report, prepared in February 1964, the staff of the Office of Research and Reports in the CIA’s Office of the Deputy Director (Intelligence) (DD/I) reviewed the evidence […]
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
Source Archive: National Security Files, box 47, John F. Kennedy Library.
February 7, 1963 ยป Universal News report on Robert McNamara’s Special Cuba Briefing, along with Senator Kenneth Keating and JFK’s press conference on Cuba.
Robert McNamara and DIA official Thomas Hughes give a televised intelligence briefing on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
A January 28, 1963, news report on life in Castro’s Cuba and the life Cuban refugees were fleeing.
This December 1962 Pentagon report reviews the operational aspects of the military’s response to the threat posed by the Soviet military deployment in Cuba.