19. “McCone, Memorandum for the File: Executive Committee Meeting on 23 October 1962, 6:00 p.m.,” in CIA Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962, ed. Mary S. McAuliffe (Washington, D.C.: Central ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the ... So in April 1961, the CIA trained, armed and transported 1300 Cuban exiles to invade Cuba. They landed at the Bay of Pigs, and tried ...

Brugioni brought his skills to bear on numerous international crises during his three and a half decades with the CIA. The downing of Gary Powers' U-2 spyplane in 1960, the Cuban missile crisis in ...

leading to the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. The CIA made hundreds of doomed attempts to assassinate Castro, involving everything from poisonous cigars to exploding seashells. So who is to ...

The arrival of the warships in Cuba has echoes of the Cold War, when the Communist regimes in Moscow and Havana competed with the West for geopolitical power – and the 1962 Cuban missile crisis ...

Challenges: The arms race with the Soviet Union continued and escalated in the Cuban Missile Crisis. John F. Kennedy agreed to a CIA plan which attempted to overthrow Fidel Castro by sending a band of ...

Only weeks after he took office he was told of a secret CIA plan to send an army of ... Kennedy did have one triumph of foreign policy: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the closest the world ...

President Trump has instructed security organisations to create plans for the release of these files. The announcement has ...