The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Cuban Missiles - A Real Threat to the US
Rumors began to circulate in the US about Soviet missiles being deployed in Cuba, but there was no evidence to support this. U-2 spy plane flew over Cuba piloted by Major Richard Heiser, taking hundreds of photographs of sites where activity was recently spotted. The next day, October 15, the film was processed by the CIA which found clear evidence of Soviet missile sites in Cuba. Given the range of the missiles, there were 90 million Americans who were at risk.
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