Is this serious stuff that should grab the attention of U.S. leaders?
In 1962, a spy in the old USSR provided Great Britain’s intelligence service information that the Soviet Union was placing nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba. This intelligence included photographs of the planned installations. Britain passed that information on to the United States, which used U-2 spy planes to search for evidence of this collaboration. This scouting mission revealed that the missiles were in Cuba. President John F. Kennedy announced the news on Oct. 22, 1962, the same day that the new Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles went on alert.
The Soviets denied any such Cuban-based deployment. To counter this denial, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson, provided photographic proof to the UN Security Council of the missile build-up. Kennedy announced an armed embargo of all further shipments to Cuba until the Soviets removed the missiles.
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