Introduction:
The aim of this report is to examine the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was a defining moment in intelligence history. With the Cold War ending in 1991, The Cuban Missile Crisis has been a central subject of debate amongst security scholars concerning the role of intelligence analysts and agencies in its sequence of events that almost resulted in nuclear war (Garthoff, 1998). This report will argue that the Crisis occurred due to inaccurate and biased intelligence and a lack of structural organization in United States’ intelligence agencies. To address this agreement this report will first explain the Cuban Missile Crisis; and will examine mirror imaging in estimations and stove -piping of intelligence agencies as primary factors …show more content…
Due to the failed invasion, there was extreme tension between the United States and Cuba and Cuba viewed the United States as a threat to their national security (Medina, 2003). Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev devised a secret agreement with Fidel Castro, assuring Cuba that their borders will be defended for and protected from the United States. The Soviet Union began to ship ballistic missiles to Cuba in May 1960. The Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) analysis of Aerial surveillance that showed Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba was disseminated to U.S. President John F. Kennedy (Blight and Welch, 2013). On the 22nd of October 1962; Kennedy televised to U.S. citizens that their military forces would blockade Cuba to prevent Soviet ships from accessing the state (McCauley, 2008). The Soviet Union saw this as an act of aggression. According to Nathan, the fear of nuclear war was imminent; resulting in in Khrushchev negotiating an agreement with Kennedy, removing the missiles, and the United States secretly dismantling theirs in Turkey (Nathan,
The aim of this report is to examine the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was a defining moment in intelligence history. With the Cold War ending in 1991, The Cuban Missile Crisis has been a central subject of debate amongst security scholars concerning the role of intelligence analysts and agencies in its sequence of events that almost resulted in nuclear war (Garthoff, 1998). This report will argue that the Crisis occurred due to inaccurate and biased intelligence and a lack of structural organization in United States’ intelligence agencies. To address this agreement this report will first explain the Cuban Missile Crisis; and will examine mirror imaging in estimations and stove -piping of intelligence agencies as primary factors …show more content…
Due to the failed invasion, there was extreme tension between the United States and Cuba and Cuba viewed the United States as a threat to their national security (Medina, 2003). Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev devised a secret agreement with Fidel Castro, assuring Cuba that their borders will be defended for and protected from the United States. The Soviet Union began to ship ballistic missiles to Cuba in May 1960. The Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) analysis of Aerial surveillance that showed Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba was disseminated to U.S. President John F. Kennedy (Blight and Welch, 2013). On the 22nd of October 1962; Kennedy televised to U.S. citizens that their military forces would blockade Cuba to prevent Soviet ships from accessing the state (McCauley, 2008). The Soviet Union saw this as an act of aggression. According to Nathan, the fear of nuclear war was imminent; resulting in in Khrushchev negotiating an agreement with Kennedy, removing the missiles, and the United States secretly dismantling theirs in Turkey (Nathan,