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The Secret Cuban Missile Crisis (Mikoyan, Castro, Kennedy, Khrushchev, November 1962)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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Michel Jan's Cuban Missile Crisis

Michel Jan had seven basic goals he was hoping to achieve, and the first of them was convincing the Cubans that their safety was assured. So how did he do with that goal? The US had already supported an invasion of Cuba in 1961, the Bay of Pigs incident. Castro was convinced in 1962 that America was planning a new invasion as a way of removing the shame of having failed at theBay of Pigs.

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