The Other Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban missile crisis: The other, secret one “ Fearing that Castro's hurt pride and widespread Cuban indignation over the concessions Khrushchev had made to Kennedy, might lead to a breakdown of the agreement between the superpowers, the Soviet leader concocted a plan to give Castro a consolation prize. The prize was an offer to give Cuba more than 100 tactical nuclear weapons that had been shipped to Cuba along with the long-range missiles, but which crucially had passed completely under the radar of US intelligence. Khrushchev concluded that because the Americans hadn't listed the missiles on their list of demands, the Soviet Union's interests would be well served by keeping them in Cuba. [Full] The CMC is really the only perceived Kennedy accomplishment that can, or has been cited.  That he made promises to Khrushchev, which effectively nullified the Monroe Doctrine, and secretly removed defenses based in Europe,  were not even revealed to congress, and certainly not bally-hood by the media once learned of, is another consideration. In another 50 years we'll know still more about what's been hidden from us by our keepers.  I suspect TWA 800, 9-11,  Oklahoma City bombing, treasonous actions by Clinton with China, and that Obama was in fact an escaped mental patient will titillate historians in another 50 years.  We'll be dead and won't care. ”