How CIA's Operation Mongoose terror war led to Cuban missile crisis
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The President's Message to Chairman Cruciev
RFK tells DeBryon that the president is in a grave situation and does not know how to get out of it. Kennedy also tried to get his friend john frankenheimer to make movie seven days in may about military coup. JFK went against really all of the advisors and xcom they were all advocating steps that would have led to nuclear war. The resolution of the crisis owed to the president's commitment to negotiate, says historian Peter corn blue.
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