The Secret Cuban Missile Crisis (Mikoyan, Castro, Kennedy, Khrushchev, November 1962)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Fidel Castro's Refusal to Allow Ground Inspections on Cuban Ports
Mikoyan knew that there would be no reciprocal inspections with the United States. He suggested a compromise to have his representatives approach Soviet ships in Cuban ports and without even stepping on them. Mikoyan thought that this compromise would be well received by Castro. But he didn't, and instead, he made a very dramatic announcement.
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Transcript
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 is well-known, but as Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss it was followed in November by a second, secret Cuban missile crisis that the Soviets hid from the world.
