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More images
from the crisis, including U-2 and US Navy low-level photos
of Soviet MRBM's and nuclear warhead bunkers from 14-23
October 1962. |
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Images
from the November crisis, 29 October - 9 November 1962. |
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Listed below are links to reconnaissance
photos and other images from the height of the
crisis, 24-28 October 1962. The photographs that make
up the vast majority of this section come from the Dino
A. Brugioni collection at the National Security Archive.
Brugioni was a career CIA officer in charge of "all-source"
intelligence and briefing preparation at the National Photographic
Interpretation Center in 1962. He later authored Eyeball
to Eyeball: The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis,
(New York: Random House, 1990).
- October 24, 1962: Low-level photograph of the Poltava,
turning back towards Moscow, carrying IRBM missiles (circled
are the IRBM launch rings on trucks).
- October 25, 1962: Low-level photograph of San Cristobal no.
1 showing extensive tracking from surging construction
and possible missile readiness drills.
- Low-level photograph of San Cristobal no. 1 suggesting missile
readiness drills.
- October 25, 1962: U.S. Navy surveillance of first Soviet F-class
submarine to surface near the quarantine line (conning
tower number 945, Soviet fleet number B-130, commanded
by Shumkov).
- Confrontation at the United Nations, October 25, 1962: deputy
NPIC director David Parker points out the photographic
evidence while U.S. ambassador Adlai Stevenson (at right)
describes the photos. USSR ambassador Valerian Zorin is
presiding at far left.
- U-2 photograph of Soviet troop encampment at Holguin.
- Low-level photograph of Soviet unit insignia displayed in front
of their camp.
- October 26, 1962: The U.S. destroyer Joseph P. Kennedy
stops, boards and inspects the Marucla, a dry-cargo
ship of Lebanese registry under Soviet charter to Cuba.
- October 27, 1962: The Soviet ship Grozny crosses the quarantine line, but stops after U.S. Navy
ships fire star shells across her bow.
- October 27, 1962: Cuban anti-aircraft gunners open fire on
low-level reconnaissance planes over San Cristobal site
no. 1 (a Soviet SA-2 missile shoots down Maj. Rudolf Anderson’s
U-2 on this day).
- October 28, 1962: The U.S. Navy shadows the second Soviet F-class
submarine to surface, after repeated rounds of signaling
depth charges on 27 October (the sub features no conning
tower number, but is Soviet fleet number B-59, commanded
by Stavitsky).
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