on the Island, with the Corona Satellite Images being cloudy, and the U-2 flights over the Soviet shipping lanes being protested to the point where the United States had conceded and stopped the overflights.
The emphasis that the submarines had played was one that was not only for transporting key personnel but also for weapon systems being transported as well. The intelligence that had been collected after the discovery, showed that indications and warnings systems that had been in place had failed to detect the movement of the SS-4 Missiles as well as the being able to use collection mediums to fully identify the actions on the Island. Oleg Penkovsky had been a spy used by both the CIA and British SIS in order to gathering intelligence from classified military files. While the information that Penkovsky has been debated, the information that was provided, gave an idea of what the stance the Soviets had when approaching the use of Nuclear weapons against the US. This answered the key question that Kennedy had, whether the need for a first strike was necessary.
But how did the United States fail to determine the intentions of the Soviets? The first was the intelligence that was received, was not evaluated in a timely …show more content…
The political pressures really placed the intelligence community in a very precarious situation, where the intelligence collected was deemed as non-substantive or being dismissed as “noise”. The DCI John McCone had proved to be a lucky one in the determination that the Russians were up to something, and that had the determination the Soviets would move equipment to Cuba. The Soviets had a great deal of measure to insulate the operation especially operation Anadyr, where the actual equipment to set up the launchers and SS-4 Missiles were
The emphasis that the submarines had played was one that was not only for transporting key personnel but also for weapon systems being transported as well. The intelligence that had been collected after the discovery, showed that indications and warnings systems that had been in place had failed to detect the movement of the SS-4 Missiles as well as the being able to use collection mediums to fully identify the actions on the Island. Oleg Penkovsky had been a spy used by both the CIA and British SIS in order to gathering intelligence from classified military files. While the information that Penkovsky has been debated, the information that was provided, gave an idea of what the stance the Soviets had when approaching the use of Nuclear weapons against the US. This answered the key question that Kennedy had, whether the need for a first strike was necessary.
But how did the United States fail to determine the intentions of the Soviets? The first was the intelligence that was received, was not evaluated in a timely …show more content…
The political pressures really placed the intelligence community in a very precarious situation, where the intelligence collected was deemed as non-substantive or being dismissed as “noise”. The DCI John McCone had proved to be a lucky one in the determination that the Russians were up to something, and that had the determination the Soviets would move equipment to Cuba. The Soviets had a great deal of measure to insulate the operation especially operation Anadyr, where the actual equipment to set up the launchers and SS-4 Missiles were