Cuban Missile Crisis event
also: missile crisis, Soviet Missile Crisis, the missile crisis, Cuban Missile Strike crisis, putting the missiles in Cuba, Cuban Missile Crisis of 62
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Cubacountry · 19John F. Kennedyperson · 16Soviet Unioncountry · 15CIAintelligence service · 10Operation Mongooseoperation · 9United Statescountry · 8Robert F. Kennedyperson · 6Bay of Pigsoperation · 5Fidel Castroperson · 5Turkeycountry · 4National Security Councilorganization · 4Miamiplace · 4Nikita Khrushchevperson · 4Ted Shackleyperson · 4William Harveyperson · 3Edward Lansdaleperson · 2William Caseyperson · 2Caribbeancountry · 2James A. Donovanperson · 2Francecountry · 2Eastern Soviet Unionplace · 2John McConeperson · 2Brigade 2506organization · 2Rudolf Abelperson · 2
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In Latin America, the Caribbean, and then Europe. Coup, coup, coup, coup. Yeah, he did wet work. There's no doubt about that. He was in Miami during the Cuban Missile Crisis, stationed in Miami. So he's part of that. Gets out of the CIA and…
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Shackley had denigrated the legend of Bill Harvey, his mentor, to Robert Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Harvey's CIA career was destroyed. Now, according to Robert Crowley, Wells was getting the same treatment Shackley had given t…
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Nonetheless, Lincoln Gordon had to go on meeting with him because it was his job. And he found that the Brazilian president was full of surprises. At the time, the missile crisis in October 1962, Gordon went to brief Goldiart on the presenc…
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Eisenhower had pre-positioned missiles pointing at the Soviet Union in Turkey. That was completely unprovoked forward aggression. There was no reason for those missiles to be there at all. And that was one of the negotiations. And one of th…
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And for some reason, when we do it to other people, it's perfectly fine. But when they do it to us, it's an absolute tragedy. And so Kennedy's agreement with the Soviet Union is I'll pull the missiles back from Turkey, which should have nev…
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soviet sub commander during uh the cuban missile crisis the united states destroyers were using like sub munitions to try to bring this submarine up that was ghosting the american fleet and uh it was a soviet nuke boat and basically they we…
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terrorist training camps. And they're still using those people. Those are the people that are being shuttled through Turkey that carried out the attack against Moscow, that theater. They came from Tajikistan. So this model has been used all…
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and that no specific action had ever been rejected at the NSC level. The October meeting concluded that more dynamic action was needed. Just 10 days later, the CIA U-2 reconnaissance plane flying over Cuba returned with photographs that sho…
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was not the gung-ho advocate of the covert action that he used to be. On October 30th, the NSC ordered a halt to all Mongoose operations. Lansdale was sent to Miami to close down the operation. There was no more talk, as there had been in O…
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After the missile crisis, Castro's price came down while the administration threw its weight behind an effort to raise the $53 million worth of medical equipment, drugs, and baby food. The exchange was negotiated by lawyer James A. Donovan,…
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When is, oh man, who was the other guy you mentioned? You just mentioned him in regard to when you're talking about Galbraith. Oh yeah, Nitsi. Paul Nitsi, as I understand it right now, he is like, in some ways, the 180 opposite of Galbraith…
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The loudest JFK had to get with some of those folks, and they were literally, you know, trying to instigate World War III during the Cuban Missile Crisis and at other times as well, was when Paul Nizzi, he wanted to convince JFK that should…
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When it came to the latest Cuba project, the Intelligence Board found, because the CIA had not briefed on it, that no overall plan seemed to exist. By late 1962, the Killian Board wanted access to the special group's records. This happened …
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But once the agency had furnished training and equipment, Castro could charge the CIA with the raids, independent or not. The covert action exacerbated Cold War tensions. Expansion of Soviet military aid to Cuba followed the Bay of Pigs, as…
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McComb took Shackley along to see the president. McComb figured that the station chief would provide a view from the trenches. Kennedy asked a few questions, but none of them related to the paramilitary raids. The project peaked in the mont…
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moral of the story, you can't believe anything these people say, whether they're testifying in front of Congress or whatever, because they'll say whatever they want to say. And when things are proven differently, nothing ever happens to the…
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on as a result of reports from Mongoose, but the ensuing Cuban Missile Crisis would sweep away the CIA's project. When Richard Helms arrived at Robert Kennedy's office the morning of October 16th to deal with certain legal matters, Bobby ha…
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Their central problem began getting the Russians to take those missiles out of Cuba without starting World War III. They needed to avoid anything that might provoke the Soviets or the Cuban military. In that context, Kennedy's constant push…
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There is, in my judgment, no middle ground on this issue, he stated. Thus, in the middle of the missile crisis, Ted Shackley threw the Kennedys this hot potato, amounting to a disposal problem all over again. That's interesting. Again, they…
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wanted to go, admitting that he had not considered political realities and that he viewed matters as a nuts and bolts issue. Shackley kept pressing for a decision. A commando landing at the height of the crisis with both sides on hair trigg…
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The EXCOMM discussed the operation and McComb personally briefed the landings. President Kennedy and McGeorge Bundy both spoke of reorienting Mongoose. Bobby went to Langley and denounced everyone except Bill Harvey. On October 30th, the Wh…
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as there had been on October 4th of mining Cuban harbors. McCone soon packed Bill Harvey off to the Rome station, getting him out of the line of fire. And we all know what he did there. All this time, the exiled prisoners from the Bay of Pi…
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on the prospect occurred into 1962. After the missile crisis, Castro lowered his price while the administration threw its weight behind efforts to raise $53 million of medical equipment, drugs, and baby food for the deal. Lawyer James A. Do…
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The superpower eventually resolved the missile crisis at the high level. The Soviets removed their weapons from Cuba. The Americans later dismantled their missiles in Turkey. President Kennedy publicly promised not to invade Cuba. As for th…
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President Kennedy also revamped White House controls. Instead of Robert Kennedy taking the lead, the National Security Council became the direct point of contact. Aspects of the Cuban project figured in EXCOMM discussions in late 1962 and e…
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and Bobby Kennedy had to knock the Navy into line. As had happened with Quintero during the missile crisis, exiles had disagreed with Califano's actions, often took their cases to Bobby. Okay, so this is the program we've talked about in ot…
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to strike militarily against Cuba. And of course, JFK is working off of quote-unquote intelligence from his CIA. This is astonishing. Barely seven months after the Cuban Missile Crisis, which had brought the world close to nuclear war, a ma…
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and place the onus on the British crown, which of course he's doing with fake intelligence. The U.S. had made a public pledge not to invade Cuba as a consequence of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Aggressive, overt action of this sort would react…
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Cap Weinberger and George Shultz all recognized that Managua depended on imports, especially weapons and foreign oil. Americans' military exercises in Central America had already featured naval task force all up and down the Nicaraguan coas…
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Intelligence Deputy Robert Gates took a hand with a memo to Casey in which he began, it is time to talk absolutely straight about Nicaragua. Gates accepted the rationale for the war but noted that the Contras, even with American supports, c…
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with the Soviets and the UK during the Cuban Missile Crisis and that a prominent American had also been ensnared in the ward's ring. Now, of course, they make that allegation that that is in fact going to be JFK. William Mellon Hitchcock wa…
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there are indications that Corbley had had an interest in Ward prior to their first encounter. Ward had been used as a back channel by the British during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Corbley had an operational interest in befriending Ward as w…
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Illinois Congressman Donald Rumsfeld, who decades later would achieve notoriety for his national security reign, Rumsfeld arranged for Dulles to speak about the CIA in Cuba at the 88th Congressional Club in March of 63. Cuba remained the so…
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the assumptions of the Cold War. The address, which would go down in history as the peace speech, carried echoes of Khrushchev's own heartfelt pleas to Kennedy at the height of the Cuban crisis. When he had told JFK that the Russian people …
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By 1963, the military and espionage officials in Kennedy's government were all too aware of their commander-in-chief dedication to peace, a growing commitment to detente with the communist world that, in the minds of the National Security H…
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The Kennedy administration thought that being as strong as we were was provocative to the Russians and likely would start a war. We in the Air Force, and I personally, believe the exact opposite. LeMay and his generals continued to angrily …
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They were busily engaged in saving face for the Soviets and making concessions, giving up junipers deployed overseas when all we had to do was write our own ticket. In other words, kill a whole bunch of people. That's their ticket. By sprin…
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But I was amazed, even shocked, at how reactionary the conversation became around the dinner table, Scott later recalled. Most of the talk focused on the danger presented to the nation by the president, JFK. His failure to depose Castro, es…
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The tension between the two men finally exploded in October of 62 when Harvey schemed with the Pentagon to send a series of raiding parties into Cuba at the height of the missile crisis to pave a way for U.S. military invasion that the Pres…
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In 1951, he was recruited into the CIA from the army. His first foreign assignment was West Berlin, when the espionage capital of the world at the time. In 1962, he was named CIA station chief in Miami with responsibility for assisting Cuba…
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that the reason there is no attempt on a second invasion of Cuba was because after the Cuban Missile Crisis of 62, the Soviets left four operational nuclear missiles as a deterrent. Whether that's true or not, who knows? But if the CIA beli…