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Cuba: Declassified Records on the Brothers to the Rescue Shootdown

Washington, D.C., May 19, 2026 - One month before Cuban MiG aircraft shot down two unarmed Cessna planes off the island coast, a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) official…

May 19, 2026

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Cuba: The Bay of Pigs Invasion 65 Years Later

Apr 16, 2026

In May 2002, Jimmy Carter became the first US president in or out of office to visit Cuba, where he was welcomed by the island's communist leader Fidel Castro

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Jan 15, 2025

Wayne S. Smith: His Declassified Legacy on Cuba

Jul 12, 2024

The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60
POSTMORTEMS

Dec 13, 2022

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Getting to Know the Cubans: Part Two

Nov 3, 2022

One of the U.S. Jupiter missiles in Turkey that Kennedy secretly traded for the removal of Soviet missiles in Cuba.

The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60
The Cuban Missile Crisis Cover-Up

Oct 28, 2022

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).

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The Most Dangerous Day

Oct 27, 2022

Cuban anti aircraft guns target US planes Oct 27

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Nuclear Crisis Lasted 59 Days, Not Just 13

Oct 27, 2022

President Kennedy with his close friend British Ambassador David Ormsby-Gore

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Briefing NATO Allies

Oct 21, 2022

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