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Parent topics
- Cold War [r]: Geostrategic, economic and ideological struggle from about 1947 to 1991 between the Soviet Union and the United States and their allies. [e]
- Cuba [r]: a Communist state made up of a number of islands in the Caribbean. [e]
Subtopics
Communist military forces
- S-75 Dvina [r]: S-75 Dvina surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems were the first Soviet air defense missiles in wide deployment. Their NATO reporting designation was S-75 Dvina. [e]
- Medium range ballistic missile [r]: A guided missile, with a range between 600 and 1500 miles, which does not rely on aerodynamic lift to maintain its course. [e]
- Intermediate range ballistic missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
Communist personnel
- Fidel Castro [r]: (1926—2016) Former president of Cuba. [e]
- Nikita Khruschev [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oleg Penkovsky [r]: (1919-1963) Colonel in Soviet military intelligence (GRU), possibly the most important Cold War defector, who remained in place, providing information, until shot [e]
U.S. military forces
- Atlas (missile) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- CIA activities in Cuba [r]: Add brief definition or description
- B-47 Stratojet (bomber) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- B-52 Superfortress (bomber) [r]: United States Air Force heavy bomber, first version flown in 1952, entered service in 1961, expected to stay operational until at least 2030 [e]
- National Security Agency [r]: An organization within the United States Department of Defense, with the dual roles of the principal signals intelligence agency in the United States intelligence community, but also having the responsibility for information assurance of military, diplomatic, and other critical communications. [e]
- Signals intelligence from 1954 to 1979 [r]: Technology and history of signals intelligence from 1954 to 1979 [e]
- U-2 Dragon Lady [r]: A high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft that remains a key U.S. intelligence collection platform. [e]
U.S. personnel
- George Ball [r]: Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, who regularly advised against escalation in the Vietnam War, believing it detracted from U.S. priorities in Europe [e]
- Dino Brugioni [r]: Former senior official at the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center who helped establish imagery intelligence (IMINT); after retirement, worked on the use of imagery in historical research; discovered, well after WWII, photographic evidence of Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp [e]
- McGeorge Bundy [r]: Harvard University professor and dean who became Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson Administrations between 1961-1966. [e]
- John F. Kennedy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Art Lundahl [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Robert McNamara [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Y. Smith [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Maxwell Taylor [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Albert Wheelon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Albert Wohlstetter [r]: Add brief definition or description
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