03214nam 2200697 a 450 991081371310332120230801224047.01-283-58424-797866138966981-60344-772-5(CKB)2670000000234538(EBL)1056979(OCoLC)809977875(SSID)ssj0000711037(PQKBManifestationID)11940701(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000711037(PQKBWorkID)10673674(PQKB)11151913(OCoLC)812786322(MdBmJHUP)muse19780(Au-PeEL)EBL1056979(CaPaEBR)ebr10588011(CaONFJC)MIL389669(MiAaPQ)EBC1056979(EXLCZ)99267000000023453820120201d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBlind over Cuba the photo gap and the missile crisis /David M. Barrett & Max Holland1st ed.College Station [Tex.] Texas A&M University Pressc20121 online resource (226 p.)Foreign relations and the presidency ;no. 11Description based upon print version of record.1-60344-768-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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. 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 manForeign relations and the presidency ;no. 11.Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962Intelligence servicePolitical aspectsUnited StatesExecutive-legislative relationsUnited StatesNational securityPolitical aspectsUnited StatesUnited StatesPolitics and government1961-1963Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.Intelligence servicePolitical aspectsExecutive-legislative relationsNational securityPolitical aspects973.922Barrett David M.1951-1385259Holland Max1618129MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813713103321Blind over Cuba3949674UNINA