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Shannon target in missile crisis; Cuban crisis: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, left, and U.S. President John F. Kennedy during talks to avert a nuclear war.

THE Irish government began searching all Cuban and Czech aircraft atShannon during the Cuban missile cricri after the Americans sugsugthe stopoverwas being used to smuggle nuclear technology.

Taoiseach Sean Lemass gave the go-ahead for the inspections after a formalrequest from then U. S. ambassador Matthew McCloskey.

The move was ordered on December 6, 1962, when the government announced aminisminisorder had been made invoking the power to search aircraft formunitions and implements of war.

The U.S.-USSR showdown had arisenafter Soviet premier NikitaKhrushchevdecidedto supportFidelCastrosCuban regime by arming it with nuclear missiles capable of striking targets ...

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