Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis

by Blight,James G.

• ISBN13: 9780714644356
• ISBN10: 0714644358
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-10-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis examines for the first time the role and performance of all three intelligence communities centrally involved in this seminal event: American, Soviet and Cuban.

Table of Contents

Editors' Note	vii
List of Acronyms	ix
What can Intelligence tell us about the Cuban Missile Crisis, and what can the Cuban Missile Crisis tell us about Intelligence?	1	(17)
James G. Blight
David A. Welch
US Intelligence in the Cuban Missile Crisis	18	(46)
Raymond L. Garthoff
Soviet Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis	64	(24)
Aleksandr Fursenko
Timothy Naftali
Cuban Intelligence and the October Crisis	88	(32)
Domingo Amuchastegui
Organizing for Crisis Intelligence: Lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis	120	(30)
James J. Wirtz
Perception, Intelligence Errors, and the Cuban Missile Crisis	150	(23)
Beth A. Fischer
The Cuban Missile Crisis and Intelligence Performance	173	(45)
James G. Blight
David A. Welch
About the Contributors	218	(1)
Abstracts	219	(4)
Index	223