Title: Cuban Missile Crisis
1Cuban Missile Crisis
By Philip Brenner
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3CIA Briefing Map Meeting of the ExComm October
16, 1962
4U-2 Photo of Missile Site, October 14, 1962
5Missile Warhead
6ExComm Deliberation During the Crisis
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8Letter from Nikita Khrushchev to John F.
Kennedy,October 26, 1962
9Black Saturday Second Letter
10Black Saturday
Low-level reconnaissance of Cuban anti-aircraft
sites
11U.S. Lessons
- Crises can be managed
- - Secrecy
- - Small group with open discussion
- - Exclude and misinform Congress and public
- Steel Will (Eyeball to Eyeball)
- - Toughness
- - Resolve
- Superior Strength
- - Build up Military
- - Exercise Coercive Diplomacy
12Problems with US Lessons - First Cut
- Crises cannot be managed
- Flexibility, not steel will, saved us
- Force or threat of force precipitated the crisis,
made it more dangerous
13US Misconstrues Soviet Motives
Summit in Vienna Austria, June 1961
Berlin Wall Erected, August 1961
14Jan. 3, 1961
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16Bay of Pigs
- The next day, 1,500 U.S. trained Cuban exiles
landed on Cuba with weapons supplied by the
United States.
17Richard Goodwin Meets Ché Guevara
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18Memorandum from Gen. Lansdale to Special Group
(Augmented) -- Pg 1
Operation Mongoose
19Gen. Lansdale Memorandum (Continued) -- Pg 2
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21Operation Anadyr
- In July 1962 the Soviet Union began to send
ballistic missiles, other weapons and soldiers to
Cuba. The build-up troubles US military planners,
even as they conclude - that ballistic
- missiles are
- not being
- installed.
22New York TimesOctober 23, 1961
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23Soviet Union responds by exploding a 50-megaton
hydrogen bomb in the atmosphere, Oct 30, 1961
White House Statement
24Problems with US Lessons - Second Cut
- Crisis management Groupthink and exclusion
of information - Steel will inflexibility and no negotiations
force becomes only alternative - Coercive diplomacy military build-up
ignores factors such as patriotism
25Soviet Lessons
- Crises cannot be managed
- Crises must be prevented
- Improve communications with the other superpower
- Achieve parity (equal military force) with US
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27President Kennedys American University
Speech June 10, 1963
28Cuban Lessons
- Neither superpower can be trusted
- Cuba must defend itself with asymmetric warfare
- Support revolution in Third World
- Strengthen military forces
- Intensify internal security
29Castros Five Demands
- Cessation of the US economic embargo and US
pressure on other countries to cut commercial
links to Cuba - End US subversive activities against Cuba,
including the organization of invasions by
mercenaries and infiltration of spies and
saboteurs - Cease piratical attacks from bases in the
- United States and Puerto Rico
- End violations of Cuban airspace
- US withdrawal from Guantanamo Naval Base
30Anastas Mikoyan Arrives in Cuba
31IL-28 Bomber (Bulgarian model in Cuba)
32How Castro Remembered Mikoyans Visit
-- From James Blight and Philip Brenner, Sad and
Luminous Days
33OSPAAL Organization of Solidarity of the
Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America
34Cuban Missile Caribbean October
Crisis