Cuba was still there. So was Communist Castro. And there was as yet no positive, on-site assurance that all the offensive weapons provided by Russia had been removed. Thus, although it tended to get lost in the election-week headlines, Cuba remained a continuing crisis.
Swooping low-over the island, U.S. Air Force RF-101 jets and Navy F8U reconnaissance planes returned with pictures indicating that the Russians were dismantling their Cuban missile bases as promised. When subsequent pictures showed missiles being hurriedly loaded aboard nine Soviet freighters, the Department of Defense confidently announced that...
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