Key Documents

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Selected Key Documents:

  1. CIA Special National Intelligence Estimate, “Major Consequences of Certain U.S. Courses of Action on Cuba,” October 20, 1962.
  2. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, military briefing, “Notes on October 21, 1962 Meeting with the President.”
  3. “Radio-TV Address of the President to the Nation from the White House,” October 22, 1962.
  4. Prime Minister Fidel Castro’s letter to Premier Khrushchev, October 26, 1962.
  5. CIA daily report, “The Crisis USSR/Cuba,” October 27, 1962.
  6. DOJ, Memorandum, TOP SECRET, “Memorandum for the Secretary of State from the Attorney General,” on Robert Kennedy’s October 27 meeting with  Anatoly Dobrynin, October 30, 1962.
  7. USSR, Cable, TOP SECRET, Dobrynin Report of Meeting with Robert Kennedy on Worsening Threat, October 27, 1962.
  8. USSR, Letter, from Chairman Khrushchev to Prime Minister Castro, October 28, 1962.
  9.  Cuba, Letter, from Prime Minister Castro to Chairman Khrushchev, October 28, 1962.
  10. White House, “Post Mortem on Cuba,” October 29, 1962.

Additional Documents:

  1. The National Security Archive’s Collection of Original Documents
  2. Declassified CIA Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis


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