“Mr President, the American people are asking with new urgency: what is
going on in Cuba?”……. “Nothing but
refugee rumors,” sneered President Kennedy’s National Security advisor, Mc
George Bundy on ABC’s Issues and Answers on October 14, 1962. “Nothing in Cuba
presents a threat to the United States,” continued the Ivy League luminary,
barely masking his scorn for these hot-headed and deceitful Cuban refugees. “
There’s no likelihood that the Soviets or Cubans would try and install an offensive capability in Cuba,” he scoffed.
And for all
the thanks the Cubans exiles got: “There’s
fifty-odd-thousand Cuban refugees in this country,” sneered President Kennedy
himself the following day, “all living for the day when we go to war with Cuba.
They’re the ones putting out this kind of stuff.”
Exactly 48
hours later, U-2 photos sat on President Kennedy’s revealing about fifty of
those “refugee rumors,” studding the entire island of Cuba. Ten of the “rumors”
were medium and intermediate range ballistic missiles bases, the rest were
airfields for Soviet bombers and other military bases. Given the relative
populations of Cuba and Iraq the Russians put more “boots on the ground” in
Cuba in 1962 than we put in Iraq in 2003-04. (Emphasis added)……To Read More……
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