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



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Autore: Barrett David M. <1951-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Blind over Cuba [[electronic resource] ] : the photo gap and the missile crisis / / David M. Barrett & Max Holland Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: College Station [Tex.], : Texas A&M University Press, c2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (226 p.)
Disciplina: 973.922
Soggetto topico: Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Intelligence service - Political aspects - United States
Executive-legislative relations - United States
National security - Political aspects - United States
Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government 1961-1963
Altri autori: HollandMax  
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
Titolo autorizzato: Blind over Cuba  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-58424-7
9786613896698
1-60344-772-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910785548303321
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Serie: Foreign relations and the presidency ; ; no. 11.