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Transcripts For MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show 20180315 04:00:00

Were going to start with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cuban missile crisis was 1962. It took place over 13 very, very stressful days in october 1962. The United States at that point had long been flying High Altitude surveillance flights over the nation of cuba, but on october 14th, 1962 a u2 surveillance flight picked up imagery in cuba of something that started that whole crisis, started that whole standoff. Its interesting. The Cuban Missile Crisis is very precisely identified in all the history books as having started on october 16th. Two days after that u2 spy plane captured those images in cuba. But the crisis didnt start on october 16th because something happened that day, because there was some overt act by cuba, there was some provocation there or some announcement by them, it didnt start because on october 16th there was some act by the soviet union or some announcement by the soviets that kicked off this crisis. The reason we can be so specific about when the Cuban Missile Cris

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flower, while it is at its most terrifying and not at all resolved and it seems like we might be having a nuclear war after this issue, on october 22nd, oleg was walking down the street in moscow and the kgb snatched him off the street, arrested him and figured out he was a double agent. we don t know how they got him, if they were able to reverse engineer what information the u.s. had about the site or maybe a american double agent knew about penkovsky being this important asset for the western allies and maybe some american or british double agent gave this guy s name to the kremlin, we don t know. in the middle of the crisis before any diplomatic resolution was in reach, oleg gets snatched

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he was a russian double agent. unbeknownst to the soviet union, she was secretly spying for britain and the united states and provided the technical descriptions and materials that allowed the kennedy administration in 1962 to confirm in fact the soviet union was secretly moving nuclear missiles to cuba. we can be more specific about the value of that information that he provided. at the cia s web site, they have a whole section devoted to penkovsky. he provided detailed plans and descriptions of the launch sites in cuba to which the soviet union had deployed the missiles starting that summer of 1962. his information gave the kennedy administration such specific technical insight into what they were looking at in surveillance

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off the street in moscow. he was the highest ranking soviet officer to have ever spied for the u.s. or great britain up until that time. the kbg snatched him off the street and charged him with high treason and espionage. he was convicted and in the spring of 1963 they killed him. they executed him inside the prison in moscow. they dumped his ashes in a mass grave. even today in 2018 the cia calls oleg penkovsky one of the most valuable assets in the history of the usa. from the other side of the equation, from the soviet perspecti perspective, he was seen as one of the most damaging traitors to ever hurt the soviet union. fast forward 40 years to 2004,

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