THE LESSONS OF THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000605670002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 27, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/20 :CIA-RDP90-005528000605670002-7
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27 sE~'Et~ER 1982
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For 13 chilling days in October 1962, it seemed that John F.
Kennedy and R'ikita S. Y.hrushchev Wright be playing out the open-
ing scenes of World War III The Cuban missile crisis was a
uniquely compact moment of hi.stor}?. For the first time in the nu-
clearage, the two superpowers found themselves in a sort of moral
road test of their apocalyptic pow_