Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy
Cuban Missile Crisis
Havana Meeting
of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American Republics, July 21-30,1940
Rio De Janeiro
Conference for the Maintenance of Continental Peace and Security, August 15-September
2, 1947
Bogota
Conference of American States, Charter of the Organization of American States;
March 30-May 2, 1948
Waging
Peace in the Americas : Address by Secretary Acheson; September 19, 1949
Fidel
Castro, "History Will Absolve Me, 1953
R.
Hart Phillips, "Cuba Suppresses Youths’ Uprising; Forty Are Killed,"
New York Times, 14 March 1957
Despatch
From the Embassy in Cuba to the Department of State on Political Conditions
in Cuba, Havana, February 25, 1959
Despatch
From the US Embassy in Cuba to the Department of State, "Military Causes
for the Collapse of the Batista Regime," No. 1060 Havana, March 23, 1959
U.S.,
National Security Agency, Archive of Declassified Files From the Cuban
Missile Crisis
Interview
with Che Guevara at his home on April 18, 1959 by two Chinese journalists, K'ung
Mai and Ping An, "A New Old Interview"
Communist
Threat To The United States Through The Caribbean, Hearings Before The Subcommittee
To Investigate The Administration Of The Internal Security Act and Other Internal
Security Laws Of The Committee On The Judiciary, United States Senate, 86th
Congress, 1st sess., FIRST SESSION. Testimony of Major {edor L. Diaz Lanz, 14
July 1959
National
Security Archive, The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 A Chronology of Events January
1, 1959 - Late 1961
Ernesto Che
Guevara, "Notes for the Study of the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution,"
October 8, 1960
US,
Congress, Senate, The Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations
with Respect to Intelligence Activities (The "Church Committee"),
"Assassination Planning and The Plots: Cuba." 1975
Ernesto Che
Guevara, "Mobilising the Masses for the Invasion," Speech made to
sugar workers in Santa Clara on March 28, 1961; twenty days before the Bay of
Pigs invasion.
Ernesto Che
Guevara, "On Growth and Imperialism," Speech at the Special Meeting
of the Inter-American Economic and Social Council of the Organization of American
States in Punta del Este, Uruguay, August 8, 1961
National
Security Archive, The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 A Chronology of Events January
1, 1962 - September 28, 1962
Fidel
Castro, Second Declaration of Havana, 4 February 1962
National
Security Archive, The Cuban Missile Crisis A Chronology of Events October 1,
1962 - October 25, 1962
National
Security Archive, The Cuban Missile Crisis A Chronology of Events November 1,1962
- December 19, 1962
National
Security Archive, The Cuban Missile Crisis A Chronology of Events January 1963-
January 1992
US, Central Intelligence
Agency, "A Program of Covert Action Against the Castro Regime," 16
March 1960
Nikita
Khruschchev: Speech to the RFSR Teacher's Congress - on Cuba, Moscow, July 9,
1960
US, National Security
Agency, Memorandum Suggesting Soviet Arms Shipments to Cuba, 5 October 1960
Memorandum From the
Chief of WH/4/PM, Central Intelligence Agency (Hawkins) to the Chief of WH/4
of the Directorate for Plans (Esterline), Washington, January 4, 1961. (Preparations
for an invasion of Cuba)
Memorandum Prepared in the
Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, January 19, 1961. (Planning an invasion of Cuba)
Memorandum of Conference
With President Kennedy, January 25, 1961
Letter
from President Kennedy to Secretary Ribicoff Requesting Him To Undertake Direction
of Cuban Refugee Activities, January 27, 1961
Memorandum of Discussion,
January 28, 1961 (In which the JCS asserts that an invasion of Cuba would not be
successful)
US, National Security
Agency, Memorandum Indicating Training of Cuban pilots in Czechoslovakia, 1
February 1961
US, National Security
Action Memorandum # 10, "Policy for Cuba," 6 February 1961
President
Kennedy's News Conference of February 8, 1961
Memorandum From
the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mann) to Secretary
of State Rusk, February 15, 1961. (Arguing against an invasion of Cuba)
US, National Security
Action Memorandum #31, "Memorandum of Discussion on Cuba," 11 March
1961
Memorandum From
the Under Secretary of State (Bowles) to Secretary of State Rusk, March 31,
1961 (Arguing Against an invasion of Cuba)
US, National Security
Action Memorandum #35, "Deployment of IRBMs to Turkey," 6 April 1961
Memorandum
from Arthur Schlesinger to President Kennedy, "Cuba: Political, Diplomatic,
and Economic Problems," 10 April 1961
Telegram From the Embassy in
the Soviet Union to the Department of State, April 18, 1961
Memorandum From the
President's Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy) to President Kennedy
(arguing for US air support against the Cuban air force to support the invasion) April 18,
1961
Letter From President
Kennedy to Chairman Khrushchev, April 18, 1961
Notes on Cabinet
Meeting, Chester Bowles, April 20, 1961
Oral
History Project, US Senate, Pat M. Holt Chief of Staff Foreign Relations Committee,
"Fulbright and the Bay of Pigs," (Monday, October 27, 1980) Interviewed
by Donald A. Ritchie
Michael Warner,
"The CIA's Internal Probe of the Bay of Pigs Affair," Studies in
Intelligence, US, Central Intelligence Agency, (Winter 1998-99)
The Bay of Pigs Revisited by
Michael D. Morrissey
FOREIGN
RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1961-1963, Volume X, Cuba, 1961-1962
Database of Speeches by
Fidel Castro
John C. Ausland, "WHEN
THEY SPLIT BERLIN, WASHINGTON WAS ASLEEP," :International Herald Tribune,
November 14, 1989
Letter From Chairman
Khrushchev to President Kennedy on a German Peace Treaty, September 29, 1961
"THE THREAT
TO US SECURITY INTERESTS IN THE CARIBBEAN AREA," Special National Intelligence
Estimate 80-62, 17 January 1962
Program Review
by the Chief of Operations, Operation Mongoose (Lansdale), 18 January 1962
CIA,
Minutes, SECRET, "Meeting with the Attorney General of the United States
Concerning Cuba," 19 January 1962 (Richard Helms)
US,
Department of Defense, Memorandum, TOP SECRET, "Cover and Deception Plans
for Caribbean Survey Group," 19 February 1962 (Operation Northwoods).
USSR,
Memorandum, A. Adzhubei’s Account of His Visit to Washington to the CC
CPSU, March 12, 1962. (in original Russian with English translation)
National Intelligence
Estimate on Cuba, NIE 85-62, 21 March 1962
Memorandum
from Joint Chiefs of Staff to Robert McNamara, "Cuba" (April 10, 1962).
Appendix
from Joint Chiefs of Staff, "Justification for U.S. Military Intervention
in Cuba" and Annex, "Pretexts to Justify U.S. Military Intervention
in Cuba" (Circa Spring 1962).
Memorandum
from the General Staff to Comrade N.S. Khrushchev, on the placement of Soviet
missiles in Cuba, 24 May 1962
R. Malinovsky
and M. Zakharov, Memorandum on Deployment of Soviet Forces to Cuba, 24 May 1962
S.P.
Ivanov, Untitled Notes on the Back of the May 24 Memorandum to Khrushchev, Cold
War International History Project
Text
of General Staff Summary Diagram of Anadyr, 20 June 1962, Cold War International
History Project
Brig.
Gen. Edward Lansdale, “Review of OPERATION MONGOOSE,” Phase One, July
25, 1962.
BRIEFING FOR PRESIDENT
KENNEDY ON BERLIN, August 1962
U.S.,
National Security Memorandum No. 181, 23 August 1962
Statement
by President John F. Kennedy on Cuba, September
4, 1962
Soviet
Memorandum, "On the Possibility of Reinforcing Cuba by Air," 6
September 1962, Cold War International History Project
Memorandum
to the Commander of the Group of Soviet Forces in Cuba, 8 September 1962, Cold
War International History Project
The
Pitsunda Decision: Khrushchev and Nuclear Weapons, by Aleksandr Fursenko and
Timothy Naftali, Cold War International History Project
USSR,
draft directive, Directive to the Commander of Soviet Forces in Cuba on transfer
of Il-28s and Luna Missiles, and Authority on Use of Tactical Nuclear Weapons,
September 8, 1962.
STATEMENT BY SOVIET
UNION THAT A U.S. ATTACK ON CUBA WOULD MEAN NUCLEAR WAR, September
11, 1962
RUSSIAN
DOCUMENTS ON THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, I. BEFORE THE CRISIS: 14 SEPTEMBER-21
OCTOBER 1962, M. Zakharov and S. P. Ivanov to N.S. Khrushchev, 14 September
1962
Russian
Foreign Ministry Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis, introduction by Raymond
L. Garthoff, Cold War International History Project
Briefing
Paper, Analysis of SAM Sites in Cuba, Prepared by Colonel John R. Wright, Jr.,
1 October 1962
Memorandum
From Acting Secretary of State Ball to President Kennedy, "Policy toward
Non-Bloc Ships in Cuban Trade," 2 October 1962
National
Security Action Memorandum No. 194, 2 October 1962
Memorandum
From Secretary of Defense McNamara to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
(Taylor), 2 October 1962
Memorandum
From the Director of Intelligence and Research (Hilsman) to the Under Secretary
of State (Ball), 2 October 1962
CIA,
Minutes, TOP SECRET, "Minutes of Meeting of the Special Group (Augmented)
on Operation Mongoose," 4 October 1962.
Memorandum
of Project Mongoose Meeting (October 4, 1962).
Memorandum
From Secretary of Defense McNamara to President Kennedy, SAM Sites Contingencies,
4 October 1962
Memorandum
by Director of Central Intelligence McCone on Operation Mongoose, 4 October
1962
Chronology
Compiled for The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB), "Chronology
of Specific Events Relating to the Military Buildup in Cuba," Undated [Excerpt].
Memorandum of Discussion With
the President's Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy), 5 October 1962
(In which Bundy asserts that the Soviets would not place offensive missiles in Cuba)
Handwritten
Note for the Record by Colonel General S.P. Ivanov, on a conversation with Khrushchev
concerning the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba, 5 October 1962
Memorandum
From the Central Intelligence Agency Project Officer for Operation Mongoose
(Harvey) to the Chief of Operations, Operation Mongoose (Lansdale), 8 October
1962
Memorandum
by Director of Central Intelligence McCone on Soviet Bombers in Cuba, 11 October
1962
Memorandum
From the Director for Operations of the Joint Staff (Unger) to the Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (Nitze) on Political/Military
Actions Conerning Cuba, 12 October 1962
Memorandum
From the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Martin) to
the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (Johnson) on Operation
Mongoose, 12 October 1962
Memorandum From the
Ambassador at Large (Bowles) to President Kennedy, 13 October 1962
Notes
From the Transcripts of Meetings of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, 15 October-15
November 1962
Transcript of a
Meeting at the White House, 16 October 1962
Chronology
Compiled for The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB), "Chronology
of Specific Events Relating to the Military Buildup in Cuba," Undated [Excerpt].
Memorandum
for the Record, Mongoose Meeting with Robert Kennedy, 16 October 1962
Telegram From the Embassy in
the Soviet Union to the Department of State, October 16, 1962
Transcript of an
Off the Record Meeting on Cuba, October 16, 1962, 6:30-7:55 p.m.
Memorandum
from Adlai Stevenson to John Kennedy, [Opinion against U.S. Airstrike on Cuba]
(October 17, 1962).
Memorandum by Director
of Central Intelligence McCone, October 17, 1962.
MEMORANDUM
OF MEETING ATTENDED IN SECRETARY BALL'S CONFERENCE ROOM BY SECRETARY MCNAMARA,
BUNDY, GENERAL TAYLOR, ROBERT KENNEDY, MARTIN AND MCCONE AT 0830, 17 OCTOBER
Memorandum
of Meeting, Wednesday, October 17th, at 8:30 a.m.,(1) and again at 4:00 p.m.,
attended by Rusk, Ball (each part of the time) Martin, Johnson, McNamara, Gilpatric,
Taylor, McCone, Bohlen, Thompson, Bundy, Sorensen, Dean Acheson (for a short
time).
Letter
From the Representative to the United Nations (Stevenson) to President Kennedy,
17 October 1962
Memorandum
for Discussion on the Cuban Situation, 17 October 1962
Transcripts and audio of the Executive
Committee Meeting, 18 October 1962
Memorandum
of Conversation between the US and the USSR, 18 October 1962
Editorial
Note on a "Joint Evaluation of the Soviet Mission Threat in Cuba," released
by the Central Intelligence Agency on October 18, 1962
Memorandum
for the File, 19 October 1962
Record
of Meeting, EXCOM, 19 October 1962 11 a.m.
U.S.,
Special National Intelligence Estimate, SNIE 11-18-62, "Soviet Reactions
to Certain US Courses of Action on Cuba", 19 October 1962
Minutes
of the 505th Meeting of the National Security Council, Washington, October 20,
1962, 2:30-5:10 p.m.
Memorandum
by Theodore Sorenson, [Objections to U.S. Airstrike on Cuba] (October 20, 1962).
John
McCone, Memorandum for the Files, Conversation with the President, 20 October
1962
McNamara's
notes of his meeting with Kennedy, 21 October 1962
Notes
by Robert McNamara on Meeting with John Kennedy (October 21, 1962).
Notes
on Meeting With President Kennedy, Attorney General, General Taylor, General
Sweeney and the Secretary of Defense, 21 October 1962
Minutes
of the 506th Meeting of the National Security Council, 21 October 1962
Telegram
From the Department of State to the Embassy in the United Kingdom, 22 October
1962
U.S.,
Department of Defense, Transcripts, SECRET, “Notes taken from Transcripts
of Meetings of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, October-November 1962: Dealing with
the Cuban Missile Crisis.”
Minutes
of the 507th Meeting of the National Security Council, 22 October 1962
USSR,
Directive, TOP SECRET, Malinovsky’s Order to Pliyev, October 22, 1962.
Soviet Analysis
of the Strategic Situation in Cuba on 22 October 1962
National
Security Action Memorandum 196, 22 October 1962
John
McCone, Memorandum for the File, Leadership Meeting with the President, 22 October
1962
President John F. Kennedy's
Speech Announcing the Quarantine Against Cuba, October 22, 1962
Letter From President
Kennedy to Chairman Khrushchev, October 22, 1962.
USSR,
directive, TOP SECRET, Malinovsky’s Order to Pliyev, October 22, 1962.
U.S.
Navy, TOP SECRET/SECRET/FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY, Charts/deck logs of anti-submarine
warfare operations related to USSR submarine B-59, October 1962.
USSR,
Memoir, “Recollections of Vadim Orlov (USSR Submarine B-59): We will Sink
Them All, But We will Not Disgrace Our Navy,” (2002).
Memorandum
of Telephone Conversation Between President Kennedy and Prime Minister Macmillan,
22 October 1962
Telegram
From the Embassy in France to the Department of State, 22 October 1962
EXCERPT FROM STATEMENT
BY SOVIET AMBASSADOR VALERIAN A. ZORIN TO U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL, October
23, 1962
Minutes
of Meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council , 23
October 1962
Telegram
From the Embassy in the Soviet Union to the Department of State, 23 October
1962
Record
of Action of the Second Meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Security
Council, 23 October 1962
John
McCone, Memorandum for the Files, 23 October 1962
Telegram
From the Department of State to the Embassy in the Soviet Union, 23 October
1962
Memorandum
From the Acting Chairman of the Board of National Estimates (Smith) to Director
of Central Intelligence McCone, 23 October 1962
Record
of Action of the Third Meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Security
Council, 24 October 1962
Report
to CPSU Central Committee From Defense Minister Rodion Malinovskii and A. Epishev
about the aggressive actions of the US toward Cuba, October 24 1962
Memorandum From Attorney
General Kennedy to President Kennedy about his meeting with Soviet Ambassador
Dobrynin, October 24, 1962
Tactical
Nuclear Weapons, Soviet Command Authority, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, by
Mark Kramer, Cold War International History Project
Telegram From the
Department of State to the Embassy in Turkey raising the possibility of missile
removal, October 24, 1962
Memorandum
From the Chairman of the Planning Subcommittee of the Executive Committee of
the National Security Council (Rostow) to President Kennedy, 24 October 1962
Memorandum
of Telephone Conversation Between the Under Secretary of State (Ball) and the
President's Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy), 24 October
1962
Letter From Chairman
Khrushchev to President Kennedy, October 24, 1962
Memorandum
of Telephone Conversation Between the Under Secretary of State (Ball) and the
President's Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy), 24 October
1962
Memorandum
of Telephone Conversation Between President Kennedy and the Under Secretary
of State (Ball), 24 October 1962
Memorandum
of Telephone Conversation Between President Kennedy and the Under Secretary
of State (Ball), 24 October 1962
Memorandum
of Telephone Conversation Between Secretary of State Rusk and the Under Secretary
of State (Ball), 24 October 1962
Memorandum
of Telephone Conversation Between the Under Secretary of State (Ball) and the
Representative to the United Nations (Stevenson), 24 October 1962
Aspectos
importantes contenidos en los informes ofrecidos por los jefes militares reunidos
el día 24 de octubre de 1962 en el Estado Mayor General con el Comandante
en Jefe Fidel Castro.
Center for
the Study of Intelligence, "The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962: Presenting
the Photographic Evidence Abroad"
Memorandum
of Telephone Conversation Between the Under Secretary of State (Ball) and the
President's Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy), 25 October
1962
Telegram
From the Department of State to the Embassy in the Soviet Union, 25 October
1962
Telegram
From the Department of State to the Mission to the United Nations, 25 October
1962
Dillon
group discussion paper, “Scenario for Airstrike Against Offensive Missile
Bases and Bombers in Cuba,” October 25, 1962.
John
McCone, Memorandum for the Files, 25 October 1962
McGeorge
Bundy, "Executive Committee Record of Action, October 25, 1962, 10:00 A.M.
Record
of Action of the Fourth Meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Security
Council, 25 October 1962
Telegram
From the Mission to the United Nations to the Department of State, 25 October
1962
STATEMENT
BY SOVIET AMBASSADOR ZORIN, United Nations
Security Council Meeting, October 25, 1962
STATEMENT
BY AMBASSADOR STEVENSON TO U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL, October
25, 1962
Video
and Audio Excerpts from the Zorin-Stevenson exchanges
Walter Lippmann,
"Blockade Proclaimed," New York Herald Tribune, 25 October 1962
Telegram From the
Embassy in France to the Department of State representing the views of Turkey
on the removal of missiles, October 25, 1962
Memorandum From ABC
Correspondent John Scali to the Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research
(Hilsman)
Using
KGB Documents: the Scali-Feklisov Channel in the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Alexander
Fursenko and Timothy Naftali
Telegram From the
Embassy in the Soviet Union to the Department of State, October 26, 1962
Cable
received from U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Raymond Hare to State Department regarding
Turkish missiles, October 26, 1962.
Prime
Minister Fidel Castro’s letter to Premier Khrushchev, October 26, 1962.
Message From Chairman
Khrushchev to President Kennedy (the Second Letter), October 27, 1962
Jim Hershberg,
"Anatomy of a Controversey: Anatoly F. Dobrynin's Meeting With Robert F.
Kennedy," Saturday, 27 October 1962, Reproduced with permission from THE
COLD WAR INTERNATIONAL HISTORY PROJECT BULLETIN, Issue 5, Spring 1995
US,
Department of Justice, Memorandum, TOP SECRET, “Memorandum for the Secretary
of State from the Attorney General,” on Robert Kennedy’s October 27
Meeting with Dobrynin, October 30, 1962.
USSR,
Cable, TOP SECRET, Dobrynin Report of Meeting with Robert Kennedy on Worsening
Threat, October 27, 1962.
Anatoly
Dobrynin's Cable to the Soviet Foreign Ministry, 27 October 1962
USSR,
Directive, TOP SECRET, Prohibition on Use of Nuclear Weapons without Orders
from Moscow, October 27, 1962, 16:30.
USSR,
Directive, TOP SECRET, CC CPSU Presidium Instructions to Pliyev in Response
to His Telegram, October 27, 1962.
CIA
daily report, "The Crisis USSR/Cuba," October 27, 1962.
More
on Bobby and the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Jim Hershberg, Cold War International
History Project
"More
New Evidence on the Cuban Missile Crisis: More Documents from the Russian Archives,"
by Jim Hershberg, Cold War International History Project
Thomas
Blanton, "Annals of Blinksmanship," Reproduced with permission from
Summer,1997 THE WILSON QUARTERLY Published by the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars
Fursenko and Naftali's
Interpretation of the Turkish Missile Resolution
From: Philip Zelikow,
University of Virginia, on the Trade of the Cuban Missiles for the Turkish Missiles
Memorandum
from S. P. Ivanov to N. S. Khrushchev, 28 October 1962, Cold War International
History Project
Message From Chairman
Khrushchev to President Kennedy, October 28, 1962
Letter From Chairman
Khrushchev to President Kennedy outlining his understanding that the Turkish
Missiles would be removed, October 28, 1962.
Letter
to Fidel Castro from Nikita Khrushchev advising him to remain firm against US
aggression, October 28, 1962
Telegram From the Department
of State to the Embassy in the Soviet Union, October 28, 1962
John F. Kennedy Library,
JFK calls former President Eisenhower to brief him on the missile crisis, October 28,
1962. (4:19 minutes)
John F. Kennedy
Library, JFK calls former President Truman to brief him on the missile crisis,
October 28, 1962. (1:21 minutes)
DOJ,
Memorandum, TOP SECRET, “Memorandum for the Secretary of State from the
Attorney General,” on Robert Kennedy’s October 27 Meeting with Dobrynin,
October 30, 1962.
Notes
of Conversation between A.I. Mikoyan and Fidel Castro in which Castro expresses
his displeasure over the withdrawal of Soviet missiles from Cuba, November 03
1962
Fidel
Castro, Glasnost, and the Caribbean Crisis, by Georgy Shakhnazarov, Cold War
International History Project
Transcripts of all
the White House ExCom Conversations taped during the Crisis in RealAudio format
The
Mikoyan-Castro Talks, 4-5 November 1962: The Cuban Version
Mikoyan's
Mission to Havana: Cuban-Soviet Negotiations, November 1962, Cold War International
History Project
USSR,
Memorandum of Conversation between Mikoyan and Cuban Leaders, TOP SECRET, November
5, 1962 (Evening).
USSR,
Telegrams from Malinovsky to Pliyev, TOP SECRET, Early November (circa 5 November)
1962.
USSR,
Ciphered Telegram from Mikoyan to CC CPSU, TOP SECRET, November 6, 1962.
Great
Britain, Dispatch, CONFIDENTIAL, British Ambassador in Cuba to Foreign Office,
“The Cuban Crisis – Chapters I and II,” November 10, 1962 (with
minutes from FO’s American Department as cover).
Cuba,
Order, TOP SECRET, Authorizing Anti-Aircraft Fire, November 17, 1962.
Cuba,
Order, TOP SECRET, Rescinding Authorization to Initiate Anti-Aircraft Fire November
18, 1962.
USSR,
Instructions from CC CPSU Presidium to Mikoyan, TOP SECRET, November 22, 1962.
Hungary,
Embassy, Havana, Telegram, TOP SECRET, “The Essence of Soviet-Cuban Divergences
of Opinion,” December 1, 1962.
Handwritten
note from Robert McNamara informing Kennedy that last Jupiter Missile in Turkey
was dismantled (April 25, 1963).
"Turning
History on Its Head," Philip Brenner, National Security Archives (the Cuban
Perspective)
Collective
Memories of the Cuban Missile Crisis
14 Days in October,
ThinkQuest
Turning
History on Its Head by Philip Brenner
Raymond
Garthoff, "New Evidence
on the Cuban Missile Crisis: Khrushchev, Nuclear Weapons, and the Cuban Missile
Crisis," Cold War International History Project
The Idea
Channel, CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS REVISITED PHASE I, Panel members include Moderator
Richard Neustadt of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University;
McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to President John F. Kennedy for National
Security Affairs; Edwin Martin, Assistant Secretary for Latin American Affairs
under J.F.K.; Dean Rusk, Secretary of State under J.F.K.; and Donald Wilson,
Deputy Director of the United States Information Agency.
"Mikoyan's
Mission to Havana: Cuban-Soviet Negotiations," November 1962, Cold War
International History Project
Sheldon
Stern, "What JFK Really Said," The Atlantic, May 2000
Sara
Lipka, "A Near Miss," The Atlantic, 24 October 2002
"A New
Look at the Cuban Missile Crisis," Colloquium on Contemporary History,
June 18, 1992, No. 7, Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy, Washington,
D.C. 1992
Post Missile Crisis
Walter
Lippmann, "Cuba and the Nuclear Risk, The Atlantic, February 1963
US,
NSC, "Mr. Donovan's Trip to Cuba," March 4, 1963
US,
NSC, "The Cuban Problem," April 21, 1963
US,
CIA, "Interview of U.S. Newswoman with Fidel Castro Indicating Possible Interest
in Rapprochement with the United States," May 1, 1963
US,
CIA, "Reported Desire of the Cuban Government for Rapprochement with the United
States," June 5, 1963
US,
CIA, Notes on Special Group Meeting on Cuba, June 6, 1963
William
Attwood, Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Memorandum on Cuba, September
18, 1963
When
and Why Romania Distanced Itself from the Warsaw Pact, by Raymond Garthoff,
Cold War International History Project
US,
NSC, "Some Arguments Against Accommodation--A Rebuttal," November 12, 1963
US,
CIA, "Alleged Contacts Between Castro and American Government," March
4, 1964
Verbal
Message from Fidel Castro for Lyndon Johnson, transmitted by Lisa Howard of
ABC News, February, 1964
The
Crisis and Cuban-Soviet Relations: Fidel Castro's Secret 1968 Speech, by Philip
Brenner and James G. Blight, Cold War International History Project
US,
Senate Select Committee, William Attwood Testimony, Executive Session, July
10, 1975
Jerome
Wiesner, "Russian and American Capabilities," The Atlantic, July
1982
Kramer
Vs. Kramer: Or, How Can You Have Revisionism in the Absence of Orthodoxy? By
James G. Blight, Bruce J. Allyn, and David A. Welch, Cold War International
History Project
The
Havana Conference on the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Raymond L. Garthoff, Cold
War International History Project
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