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Article: Was Castro Out of Control in 1962?; New Evidence Shows the Soviets Weren't Calling All the Shots in the Cuban Missile Crisis
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- The Washington Post
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- October 11, 1987
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AT THE HEIGHT of the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962, a key
Soviet surface-to-air missile base on the island was attacked,
apparently by Cuban troops, with at least 18 Soviet casualties,
according to newly-available decoded communications intercepts.
Less than 12 hours later, on the morning of Oct. 27, 1962, an
American U-2 spyplane crashed near the base. President Kennedy and
his advisers, who did not know of the firefight at the Cuban base,
assumed the U-2 had been shot down by a Soviet-directed missile from
that base.
The military battle in Cuba, which becameknown only when the
United States broke a Soviet code in 1964, suggests that during the
missile crisis Soviet Premier Nikita ...