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The Cuban Missile Crisis began 58 years ago
« on: October 17, 2020, 01:10:45 am »
American Military News by Ryan Morgan   October 16, 2020

On October 16, 1962, a 13-day Cold War-era crisis began when U.S. President John F. Kennedy was notified of Russian nuclear ballistic missiles discovered in Cuba, in what came to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.

According to a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) history of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a DIA photo interpreter in September 1962 noticed Cuban surface-to-air missile sites were arranged in a pattern similar to those used by the Soviet Union to protect its ICBM bases. Additional human intelligence gathered by the DIA led the agency to coordinate U2 reconnaissance plane flights, which captured the images of Soviet transports moving medium-range ballistic missiles across Cuba.

According to the Library of Congress records, on October 16 President Kennedy was briefed on the reconnaissance photos showing Soviet missiles on Cuba, setting off the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The missile crisis took place during the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The movement of Russian missiles to Cuba came more than a year after the failed U.S.-backed invasion of Cuba, the April 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion. According to then-Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s memoirs, he conceived the idea of moving nuclear missiles onto Cuba in May 1962, months before the missiles were discovered by the U.S.

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Re: The Cuban Missile Crisis began 58 years ago
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2020, 01:27:36 am »
My wife lived just outside of MacDill AFB in Tampa back then.   People in Fl were on edge.   Not sre if they called it "Hording" back then but people were stocking up on food stuffs.
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