Cuban exile

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…

the scar tissue of the war continues to make news. In Panama, on the 11th of April 2015, President Obama and President Castro marked the first meeting between the pair by shaking each other’s hand. This was the first time since 1961 that a U.S. and Cuban head of state had come together. Although the two heads of state would like to work out their differences, one problem still arises: the U.S. trade embargo. After nationalising several local subsidiaries of U.S. corporations and taxing American…

The Cuban Missile Crisis as a Rhetorical Situation The Cuban missile crisis marks a time in history when the spread of nuclear weapons was on the forefront of foreign and domestic policy concerns. On October 22, 1962, President Kennedy made an historic speech that addressed the growing concerns of nuclear weapons and Soviet Union aggression. Kennedy’s speech and the actions taken in response, continue to define the United States relationship with Cuba. Kennedy’s speech applies well to Bitzer’s…

Encompassing a majority of the world, the Cold War hit Americans closest to home with the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Faulkner's fear of “when will I be blown up” never held such real ramifications for the US. With the rising to power of Fidel Castro and the straying from American influence Cuba began to identify with the Soviet Union producing its own communist regime. In 1961 the US tried to overthrow the newly communist government of Cuba with the failed invasion known as the Bay of Pigs,…

It’s the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962, as history is concerned the crisis was averted but what if it wasn’t.The U.S. would receive nuclear missiles first decimating Florida’s inland. Next, the U.S would deploy countermeasures to Cuba’s missile silos and firing ranges. More than likely using ballistic missiles (given the moral values of the U.S.). However, this would not work because Cuba and the U.S.S.R are not stupid and would have fired all missiles at once. The U.S. would fire all of…

to the opening of diplomatic relations with the island of Cuba.The opening of diplomatic affiliations will intuitively lead to the surge of the economy,Cuban government but not the people because of the new market they’ll receive the American people in tourism,trade & political gain. However, it will not change the way of life of any of the Cuban citizens because…

I agree with the previous writer in terms of the risk Khrushchev took by placing nuclear missiles on Cuba. However, the risk lay largely in the fact that the Soviet deployment was done in secret rather than an in the open deployment of these weapons itself. I would even speculate that a skillful public announcement of the Soviet intentions, perhaps through the United Nations, in which the Khrushchev explained that US nuclear missiles in Europe pointing at the Soviet Union is comparable for the…

of eradicating the regime of Fidel Castro, the embargo has oppressed the Cuban people and has disclosed a more substantial communist dominance on Cuba. As evident, the embargo has weakened Cuba's economy and has made Cuban citizens more vulnerable and increased the likelihood to follow and obey Castro, as they see the U.S as the true cause of their problems. An example displayed in the article "How The Embargo Hurts Cubans And Helps Castro" states, “Although Castro clamors for an end to it, I…

sets up a platform for equal trade between the countries. The author of the article “President Obama takes a controversial step removing Cuba from terror list” wrote," Since Obama and Castro announced they would move toward normalization, high-level Cuban and U.S. officials have held three…

To better understand the significance of intelligence provided by Oleg Penkovsky during the Cuban missile crisis, it is of utmost important to examine the climate of the intelligence community in the United States leading up to the crisis. On September 19th, 1962, about a month before the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a Special National Intelligence Estimate (SNIE) on “The military Buildup in Cuba” considered the possibility of the Soviet’s deployment of medium and intermediate-range…