Lies being Taught;-
In 1962, the Soviet
Union was desperately behind the United States in the arms race. Soviet
missiles were only powerful enough to be launched against Europe but U.S.
missiles were capable of striking the entire Soviet Union. In late April 1962,
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev conceived the idea of placing
intermediate-range missiles in Cuba. A deployment in Cuba would double the
Soviet strategic arsenal and provide a real deterrent to a potential U.S.
attack against the Soviet Union.
Now the Truth;
BACKGROUND:
1961, 17 April: Bay of Pigs Invasion began when Cuban exiles invaded Cuba at
Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs) with U.S. support. Cubans defeated invaders in two
days. President Kennedy then approves Operation MONGOOSE to take over Cuba by killing
Castro, sabotage, arson, crop poisoning and murder of Cuban civilians. Target
date for Cuban "revolt" with U.S. military support was (ironically) October
1962. To defend Cuba, Khruschev offered Castro nuclear-armed missiles to be
installed secretly.
CRISIS EVENTS: 1962,
14 October, Sunday: Kennedy
gets U-2 photos of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
17 October, Wednesday: 16
missiles installed and would be ready to fire by October 24. All of JCS call
for immediate attack. General Le May, USAAF Chief of Staff, tells Kennedy an
attack is essential and that Soviets will not respond. Secretary of Defence
McNamara and Robert Kennedy favour a blockade.
Late p.m.: Soviet
Ambassador Gromyko visits Kennedy, who chooses not to confront him with the
missile evidence. This could have avoided the more dangerous public challenge
and demand for a humiliating withdrawal that
Kennedy made two days
later. This also excludes U.S. allies from consultation, and leads France later
to quit NATO.
22 October, Monday: Kennedy
on TV reveals the Crisis to Americans (but not U.S. provocations, e.g., Operation
MONGOOSE). 42 medium range N-missiles are in Cuba already (Schlesinger) and 25
Soviet cargo
ships heading for Cuba already
surrounded by 180 U.S. navy ships, 68 aircraft squadrons and 8 aircraft
carriers. Missile crews are on full alert. The B-52 bomber force is ordered
into the air fully loaded with nuclear weapons. In Florida the largest U.S.
invasion force since WW-II is gathering.
23 October, Tuesday:
Khruschev: "If U.S. navy interferes with Soviet ships, necessary measures
will be taken." OAS gives USA full support.
24 October, Wednesday:
Quarantine goes into effect. Soviet ships approach the 500 mile zone. U-2
photos taken on October 23rd show that the missiles will be ready in a few
days. Twenty Soviet ships stopped or turned around and six Soviet submarines
approach Cuba.
26 October, Friday: First
ship stopped and boarded (Marucla, Panamanian). Kennedy orders State Department
to prepare a post-invasion government for Cuba.
6:00 p.m., Khruschev to
Kennedy: Missiles in Cuba defensive and can be withdrawn if USA agrees not to
invade Cuba and recalls its fleet.
27 October, Saturday: A
tougher Khruschev proposal: Missiles out and
guarantees in Cuba must be
matched with the same for U.S. missiles in Turkey.
JCS proposes air strike on
Monday followed by invasion. U-2 is shot down over Cuba by SAM. JCS insists that
the SAM sites be bombed on Sunday.
Kennedy decides to agree to
Khruschev's Friday proposal.
28 October, Sunday: 10:00
am, Khruschev's reply: Missiles will be withdrawn subject to US Public Guarantee that it will never invade Cuba. There was another rider that USA will withdraw its missiles from Italy and Turkey which US did withdraw.
OUTCOME:
Cuba was secured from U.S. covert attacks and invasion and threatening US Nuclear Missiles were withdrawn from Turkey and Italy.
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