THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00901R000600090007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 11, 2005
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 22, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN

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ABC Nightline
October 22, 1982 11:30 P.M.
SUBJECT The Cuban Missile Crisis
STATION WJLA-TV
ABC Network
Washington, D.C.
MAN: It was eyeball-to-eyeball. And I went to bed
several times during that. week wondering whether the next morning
we were going to have a nuclear exchange.
TED KOPPEL: Tonight, the Cuban Missile Crisis, as
recalled by the men who dealt with it. Those 13 days in October
which began 20 years ago today are described for Nightline by
former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, by President Kennedy's
National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy, his special assistant
Theodore Sorensen, his press secretary Pierre Salinger, by the
U-2 pilot who flew photo reconnaissance over Cuba, by the CIA's
photo interpreter who analyzed those pictures. We'll here from
the man who was then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and
from ABC's John Scali, who acted as secret intermediary between
the U.S. and Soviet governments. And analyzing the aftereffect
of the Cuban Missile Crisis, former Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger.
KOPPEL: This was the time just 20 years ago when the
world quite literally. seemed to tremble on the brink of nuclear
war. It was a time, difficult to'remember now, when roughly a
quarter of a million American troops were assembled in Florida
for the possible invasion of Cuba. It was the first time in the
nuclear age that the United States and the Soviet Union came into
direct military confrontation. Those 13 days which have come to
he known as the Cuban Missile Crisis changed the way that the
U.S. and the Soviet Union perceived one another and the reality
of nuclear confrontation.
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