The ‘Incredible Wrongness’ of Nikita K hrushchev
The CIA and the C uban Missile Crisis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9880270 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Len Scott (Aberystwyth University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 340 |
| Pages | 210-228 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2648 • E-ISSN: 1468-229X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-229x.12104 |
| OpenAlex | W1764688116 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
The role of the CIA in the C uban Missile Crisis was of crucial importance to events and decisions. This article explores and evaluates the activities of the CIA in the crisis. It examines how intelligence‐gathering and analysis were conducted and how assessments and information were provided to decision‐makers. The study of the crisis illuminates many aspects of intelligence. On some of these there remain debates. The significance of CIA covert action against C uba prior to O ctober 1962, for example, is explored. Another important focus is the mistaken assessment of the US intelligence community that the Soviets were not going to deploy nuclear missiles in C uba. The nature and significance of this conclusion is considered, along with the views of the Director of Central Intelligence, J ohn M c C one, who contrary to his analysts, believed K hrushchev would deploy nuclear missiles. The view that the CIA played a successful part in monitoring the S oviet military build‐up after the discovery of medium‐range ballistic missiles is analysed. The lack of success in identifying S oviet tactical nuclear weapons is also considered. The article draws upon an extensive corpus of scholarship on the crisis, as well as declassified material and reflections of former officials. Research into the crisis extends to S oviet and other decision‐makers and thus helps facilitate a more genuinely international intelligence history of the Cold War. The article proffers a reflective and nuanced assessment that underlines the achievements as well as the shortcomings of the CIA at this most crucial moment in the Cold War
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| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |