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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813713103321

Autore

Barrett David M. <1951->

Titolo

Blind over Cuba : the photo gap and the missile crisis / / David M. Barrett & Max Holland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station [Tex.], : Texas A&M University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-58424-7

9786613896698

1-60344-772-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Collana

Foreign relations and the presidency ; ; no. 11

Altri autori (Persone)

HollandMax

Disciplina

973.922

Soggetti

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

Intelligence service - Political aspects - United States

Executive-legislative relations - United States

National security - Political aspects - United States

United States Politics and government 1961-1963

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The making of a "photo gap": August 29 to October 14, 1962 -- Obscuring the photo gap -- The struggle over the postmortems -- Stonewalling the House -- The Senate steps in -- Tensions within the Kennedy administration: fashioning a unified story -- End of the trail: the "interim" report -- The costs of managed history -- Appendix: a historiography of the photo gap, 1963-2011.

Sommario/riassunto

In the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, questions persisted about how the potential cataclysm had been allowed to develop. A subsequent congressional investigation focused on what came to be known as the "photo gap": five weeks during which intelligence-gathering flights over Cuba had been attenuated.  In Blind over Cuba, David M. Barrett and Max Holland challenge the popular perception of the Kennedy administration's handling of the Soviet Union's surreptitious deployment of missiles in the Western Hemisphere. Rather than epitomizing it as a masterpiece of crisis man