CIA Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

Abstract

The collection in this volume includes many of CIA's most important documents on the Cuban missile crisis. It contains the "honeymoon cables" that Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) John A. McCone sent to Headquarters from France a month before the missile crisis, as well as McCone's notes taken during the National Security Council Executve Committee meeting at the height of the crisis. It also includes intelligence memorandums and estimates, briefing papers, Cuban refugee reports, and memorandums on Operation MONGOOSE, the clandestine program aimed at destabilizing the Castro regime. Many of the evaluations of the missile threat contained here draw upon IRONBARK material, whose source was Soviet Col. Oleg Penkovsky. All documents in this volume have been subject to declassification review, and portions of some have been deleted for security reasons.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA498025

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  • Mary S. Mcauliffe

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  • Central Intelligence Agency

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