How CIA's Operation Mongoose terror war led to Cuban missile crisis
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The Kennedy Administration and the Cuban Operation
There's a series of crises going on under Kennedy. He had these areas, especially Cuba and Vietnam, where he was needing to have a policy against these in these important areas. But this all really becomes it's all gets overshadowed by events that begin on October the 14th. And they write about this saying an Air Force U2 High Altitude Reconnaissance Plan took photographs of Soviet medium and intermediate range missile sites under construction in Cuba. This intelligence ushered in the Cuban missile crisis.
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