The United States planned for the military occupation of Cuba in 1962 with a temporary American military governor in charge, according to newly declassified documents.
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Kent College History's curator insight,
October 25, 2016 6:16 PM
After the Bay of Pigs disaster President Kennedy created a committee charged with overthrowing Castro's government. At a meeting of this committee at the White House on 4th November 1961, it was decided to call this covert action program for sabotage and subversion against Cuba, Operation Mongoose.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis. Part of the excellent BBC Learning Zone series that supports the Modern World GCSE syllabus. Via Clairelouise, Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
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Everything you think you know about those 13 days is wrong. Via Kent College History, Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
Kent College History's curator insight,
October 23, 2016 2:41 AM
The rendition of events that the Kennedy administration fed to a credulous press; the history that the participants in Washington promulgated in their memoirs, and the story that has insinuated itself into the national memory were misleading or erroneous.
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'55 years-ago today, at 11:50 a.m., October 16, 1962, the National Security Council's Executive Committee (ExCom) began deliberating over responses to the Soviet missile deployments.'
'55 years-ago today, at 11:50 a.m., October 16, 1962, the National Security Council's Executive Committee (ExCom) began deliberating over responses to the Soviet missile deployments.'