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Sensing newly elected U.S. President John Kennedy’s vulnerability and wanting to strengthen the Russia-Cuba relationship while deterring further U.S. invasions, Soviet Chairman Nikita Khrushchev agreed in a July 1962 secret meeting with Cuban President, Fidel Castro, to provide Cuba ballistic missiles. By summer’s end, missile installation was underway — 90 miles from Florida.

On October 15, aerial reconnaissance photos caught the Soviets red-handed. No plan existed to confront this emergency because U.S. intelligence professionals were convinced the Soviets would never make this move!