A veteran correspondent’s memoir reveals the humanity and misjudgment of the Soviet leader who sparked the Cuban Missile ...

In fact, we consider that consultations did take place, dear Comrade Fidel Castro, since we received your cables, one more alarming than the other, and finally your cable of October 27 where you ...

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Later on, Nikita Khrushchev would talk about this as a ... are so indifferent to the well being of their peoples as Fidel Castro is. This was dramatically shown at the time of the Missile Crisis ...

Fidel Castro's life story is ... until their final break in January 1961. In the end, Castro emerged a winner. President Kennedy secretly pledged to Khrushchev that the United States would not ...

Fidel Castro shares at least one belief with the ... Kennedy was Castro’s adversary; Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet premier, was his patron. At one point, I mentioned the letter he wrote to ...

Two months after the Kennedy administration banned Americans from any transactions with Cuba, Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev hosted Fidel Castro on his first ever visit to the USSR on 27th ...

Nikita Khrushchev continued to aid in the spread ... He had been an ardent supporter of Fidel Castro in the two years since the revolutionary had taken power in Cuba, just 90 miles from the ...

Given the analysis of the situation and the reports which have reached us, [I] consider an attack to be almost imminent -- within the next 24 to 72 hours. There are two possible variants: the ...

Fidel Castro's life story is ... until their final break in January 1961. In the end, Castro emerged a winner. President Kennedy secretly pledged to Khrushchev that the United States would not ...

I have just received your letter. The position of our Government regarding your statement can be found in the text of the declaration announced today, with which you are surely familiar. I must ...