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- 1962

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Soviet cargo boats carrying arms and weapons are heading for Cuba. The leader of the Movement for the Recovery of the Revolution, Juan Falcon, arrested in Cuba. General Edward Lansdale presents infiltration and sabotage achievements of Operation Mongoose. Castro states that the U.S.S.R. is going to help Cuba. The SGA reports that Cuba will defend itself against Operation Mongoose with help form the Soviet Union. This history event in Cuban missile crisis timeline 6 marks the beginning of severe tensions. CIA Director John McCone reports that he beliefs that Soviet cargo ships are transporting nuclear missiles to Cuba. CIA agents with arms and explosives arrested in Camaguey. CIA agents with radio devices are arrested in Cuba. SGA-General Maxwell Taylor suggests to make Operation Mongoose more aggressive due to lack of success. President Kennedy rejects the idea of any public U.S. military actions. CIA agents are reported to mix chemicals in Cuban sugar bags bound for the U.S.S.R. in a Puerto Rico warehouse. President Kennedy orders to destroy the bags. National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy orders the speeding up of an internal revolt in Cuba. CIA trained Cuban Student Directorate gunboats attack a hotel and theater in Florida killing 20 Cubans and Soviets. Fidel Castro sends a complaint to the U.N. about the gunboat attacks. Cuban Minister of Industries Che Guevara askes Prime Minister Khrushchev to make a public statement about the missile deployment, but Khrushchev refuses. A U-2 surveillance plane discovers SA-2 SAM air defense missile installations in Cuba. The SGA orders the CIA to make up a list of sabotage targets. President Kennedy, referring to the Monroe Doctrine, opposes to foreign intervention in Cuba. In an address to the Senate Republican Senator Kenneth Keating says that the U.S.S.R. is installing nuclear missiles in Cuba. Soviet military personel and arms arrive in Cuba. Soviet-Cuban agreement on military aid and assistance, but Prime Minister Khrushchev wants make this deal publicly at the end 1962. Latin-American Free Trade Association excludes Cuba.

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Bibliography of Cuban Missile Crisis Timeline 6

Central Intelligence Agency (1994). Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Documents.
White, M (1995). The Cuban Missile Crisis.



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