Missiles, and the commander of the soviet forces on the island had the authority already delivered from moscow that when the First American bomb dropped on cuba, he could fire a salvo of Tactical Nuclear weapon into the Guantanamo Naval base where there were 5000 marines. But just thousands that was so important, it shouldnt completely overlooked the other crisis, the sino indian war. China and india of the worlds two biggest countries by virtue of population. And back in the 1960s they were the cutting edge of a competition between democracy and communism. In many ways they were where the whole cold war was really going to be fought out. Kennedy had campaigned in 1959 and 1960, one of the flanks he campaigned on was the United States wanted india to win this competition. The state Department Memo was remarkably president and they got it right. A few days later the war began and the chinese began overrunning the frontline indian positions. Within a week or two india was in a very stric
And a covert agenda because now that china and india have gone to war the cia is ready to replace the pakistan knees and they were right. They began to support the tibetan resistance and no flight started to come out of india to the chinese. Also flights that would only come out of pakistan in 1963 and 64 there would come out secretly firebases in india and it was one of those flights that discovered the chinese are in the final stages to test their First Nuclear weapons and to give the United States a crucial intelligence china was on the verge of becoming a Nuclear Weapon state. Alleges like to say and ambassador at a word about the ambassador John Galbraith was a tall man 6foot 6 inches board Ontario Canada and a graduate of the Ontario School of agriculture and moved to the United States did dkb economist and wrote several books and the star of harvard university. In dkb advisor to kennedy. And he kept the diary in he later published that diary is is a memoir. That whether or not.
Anything else . I would like to say a word about the ambassador of new delhi. John Kenneth Galbraith, because he is a huge part of this book. John Kenneth Galbraith was a tall man, 6foot six, born in ontario canada, a graduate of the Ontario School about a culture. He then moved to the United States and became an economist, wrote several books in the 1940s and 50s about economics and became one of the stars at harvard university. If not the star of harvard university. But he also became an advisor to kennedy. He kept a diary while he was ambassador to new delhi and later published diary. For the historian of of course theres gold because it isnt a memoir. A memoir is within the later and you put him how brilliant you were on the weather you were or not. The diary you right at the time but at least we still know you said that on the 19th of november, 1960 or otherwise the diary is a fascinating piece of very own political politically unknown dialog. He writes his impressions of everybod
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