Counterinsurgency and the Limits of Covert Operations

Fidel Castro on the cover of Time less than a month after coming to power. Toppling his regime would produce one of the biggest failures in the history of the CIA; detecting the Soviet missiles on Cuba would yield one of the agency's greatest successes.

VIRTUAL SESSION THIS WEEK

We don't meet in class; instead click here to go to caucus, and
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READING:

May and Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes (all)

For more on these matters

 

Documents Relating to the Bay of Pigs Crisis

 

FRUS, Cuban Missile Crisis