1. Cuban Missiles and Operation Dragon Rouge
- Author:
- Robert Baker
- Publication Date:
- 04-2017
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- American Diplomacy
- Institution:
- American Diplomacy
- Abstract:
- The 1962 Cuban missile crisis and 1964’s Belgian paratroop drop from U.S. C-130s in the Congo were the most interesting events in my five year intelligence career. Lowly intelligence analysts like me working for the U.S. Information Agency had to sit in the Director’s chair about three weekends every year as part of the job. Our building near the White House was almost empty on weekends. Nobody else was on duty except the front door guards and the cable/code room guys. If some critical action telegram came in during Saturday or Sunday, my job was to phone the Director on his red, secure phone immediately, wherever he might be.
- Topic:
- Cold War, Diplomacy, Nuclear Weapons, and Memoir
- Political Geography:
- Soviet Union, Cuba, Caribbean, North America, and United States of America