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.AI-powered
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The Secret Cuban Missile Crisis (Mikoyan, Castro, Kennedy, Khrushchev, November 1962)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
Fidel Castro's 'I Can't Wait No Longer'
Castro didn't have the weapons needed to do anything about the U2s, but he really wanted the humiliation of the low-level flights to stop. He also did not want the Russian IL-28 airplanes to be removed from Cuba as the Americans were demanding. And that was a bit of payback on Castro's part for the Soviets not consulting him when they made their deal with President Kennedy. Fidel threw the same excuse back at the Soviets that they had tried to use on him for why they didn't consult him.
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