The Secret Cuban Missile Crisis (Mikoyan, Castro, Kennedy, Khrushchev, November 1962)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Anastas and Sergo Minkeryan Left the Soviet Union on Sunday, October 28
After the Kennedy Houshov deal, it was determined that Minkeryan would go to Cuba. Anastas decided to take his youngest son, Sergo, with him on the trip. The problem was that Kennedy and Khrushchev had agreed to a framework for a deal but not all the details had been worked out. Except for Minkeryans himself, everybody at the Kremlin cowed into silence. They wouldn't contradict or correct him.
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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.
