On October 16, 1962, President Kennedy was shown photographs of Cuba taken from a U.S. reconnaissance spy plane. These photographs showed the Soviet troops being busy in building nuclear capable missile sites. The Soviets had installed these missiles only 90 miles away from the coast of

It is known the history is always presented how the powerful and dominant want it to be presented and recorded. Truly at that point in time the public did not know of any deal by the United States to remove its Jupiter missiles from Turkey which it had installed for strategic reasons. This information was disclosed later on and thus for the people of the 1960s this piece of information never existed. "The first authoritative admission on the U.S. side that the Jupiters had actually been part of a "deal" came at a conference in Moscow in January 1989, after glasnost had led Soviet (and then Cuban) former officials to participate in international scholarly efforts to reconstruct and assess the history of the crisis" (Jim Hershberg). Many things take place but governments are known to keep them secret from the public for various reasons. Another aspect which many did not know was the reason to this build up of armaments. The United States wanted to remove Castro's rule from Cuba and had planned an attack for his removal in the previous year. The CIA was backing some Cuban rebels whose job was to overthrow the Castro regime. This is famously known as the "Bay of Pigs" which was an invasion that failed terribly. The United States always kept the option of invading Cuba for Castro's removal. "Soviet (and Cuban) accounts of the "Caribbean crisis" emphasize the persisting American hostility to Castro's rule in Cuba, the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion by American-armed Cuban emigres in April 1961, and an alleged continuing American threat to invade Cuba" (Raymond L. Garthoff, p.3).

The reason for hiding many facts back in the 1960s was due to political reasons because had certain fact been brought up then the world would have looked at the issue from a completely different angle. Today the reports are analyzed differently because the political situation is completely different. Soviet Union does not exist anymore and Russia is not planning to go against the United States. It has its own arsenal of nuclear warheads in large quantities with many ICBMs and thus does not need to deploy middle ranged missiles in nearby places. Today people are given more access to the archives of the declassified information. Back then all such information was classified and no one had access to those for an analytical study. The Cold War is over and the United States does not face any threat from Russia hence many documents have been declassified. Without such documents available to analysts in the past, a correct and precise analysis was not possible. Same holds true for the present as what we might learn about wars in Iraq and Afghanistan fifty years from now might be completely different from what we know of them today.

the United States. The U.S. armed forces were ready for an invasion and take over of Cuba once they received the approval of President Kennedy. The Soviet Union had given authority to the troops in Cuba to use the nuclear weapons if United States tries to invade Cuban soil. President Kennedy called a high level secret meeting with his advisors and this later came to be knows as the Executive Committee or ExComm. A response was to be devised and th

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