Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis

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Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis

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This is the first study to examine throughly the role of US, Soviet and Cuban Intelligence in the nuclear crisis of 1962 - the closest the world has come to Armageddon.

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Index

Adzhubei, Aleksei 71-2, 85, 114, 184
aerial photography (photint) 6-7, 40, 44-5, 48, 53, 134, 138, 159, 174; discovery of missiles and 182; oblique 6, 24; standard of proof and 23, 149, 180, 194 agents 36, 44; CIA 95, 115, 118; Cuban 58, 94-5, 102-3, 108, 115, 118, 161-2, 182, 194
air strikes, 27, 30-3, 135, 164
Aleksandrovsk 35, 40, 60-1
Alekseev, Aleksandr 69-70, 74-5, 85-7, 129, 149, 175-8, 209
Alliance for Progress 74, 209
‘alliance security dilemma’ of weak states 124
Aiphand, Hervé 71
American historians, declassified US and Soviet records 43
American missiles in Turkey, Soviet leaders and 30, 158
American U-2 photographs, quality and Soviet intelligence 84
Amuchastegui, Domingo 9, 11-12, 121, 167; on Cuban intelligence 156-7, 186-8, 200, 208; the October Crisis and 139-41; questions raised by 174-9, 181
Andrew, Christopher 84
antiaircraft missiles 33
Aragonés, Emiho 69, 172, 185, 187-8
Argentina 67,98, 109
Arkhangelsk (or Okhotsk) 40
Arrastia, Rene 93, 113
Asahara, Shoko (Aum Shinrikyo cult) 126
Atomic Energy Commission 133
Ball, George 28
Batista, President Fulgencio 90, 113
Bay of Pigs (Playa Girón April 1961), CIA and 69, 102-3, 133, 161, 214; Cuban intelligence and 89, 91, 96-8, 113-14, 145, 216; and Kennedy 73-4, 154, 196; KGB and 130, 209-11; mass arrests in Cuba at time of 101; release of Cuban émigrés after 138; Soviet intelligence and 12, 69-71, 145 147, 156; US intelligence and 133-4, 139, 143; US invasion and 135
Bejucal, central nuclear warhead storage 40
Belgium 70-1, 155
Beloborodov, Gen. Nikolai 35, 58, 61
Ben Bella, President Ahmed 114
Berlin 84, 91; Kennedy’s fear of attack from USSR and China 77-8; Soviet pressure on 25-6, 30-1, 34, 37-8, 58-9, 134-5, 161, 196,213
Betts, Richard 202-3, 206, 211, 215, 217
Biryuzov, Marshal Sergei 115, 129, 131, 147, 175, 178-9, 185
blockade (quarantine), 30, 49, 53, 134-5, 192
Board of National Estimates (BNE) 32, 135-6
Bohlen, Charles 27
Bolshakov, Col, Georgi 77, 84, 175
‘bolstering’ 151
bombers, see 11-28 light bombers
Bowles, Chester 48
Brazil 94, 95, 98, 109, 114
Brigade 2506 108
Brothers to the Rescue 9
Bundy, McGeorge (National Security Adviser) 6, 27, 46, 55, 134, 208
Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) 48
bureaucratic explanation, number of Soviet personnel in Cuba and 180-1
bureaucratic-pragmatic leadership style, US 103, 117, 141; wanted to keep tactical
Burgess-Blunt Cambridge Ring 68
Burlatsky, Fyodor 129-13
Cabrera, Osvaldo Sanchez 90, 113
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Notes
  7. Acronyms
  8. Chapter001
  9. Chapter002
  10. Chapter003
  11. Chapter004
  12. Chapter005
  13. Chapter006
  14. Chapter007
  15. Contribuotrs
  16. Abstracts
  17. Index

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