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 ...

What did analysts find in the recon photographs from the Cuban Missile Crisis? http://j.mp/RwFMbj Former CIA analyst Dino Brugioni was one of the first to spot ...

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 ...

The purpose of this article is to investigate the Cuban Missile Crisis with new approaches. For this purpose, we analyse this crisis in two static and dynamic approaches. In the static approach, we ...

Here's a look at key events leading up to the Cuban missile crisis and what unfolded. » VIDEO PREVIEW: Leadership in a nuclear world [opens in a new window] Key players: Cuban leader Fidel Castro ...