The Agency: A History of the CIA

Missile Crisis in Cuba and at Langley (1x10)

Air date: Mar 01, 2019

The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was arguably the defining moment in the Cold War: 13 days in which the world came closest to a nuclear confrontation. Using recent scholarship, Professor Wilford unpacks the CIA’s performance during the crisis and how it sparked a return to traditional intelligence work instead of covert ops.