It's History

The Cuban Missile Crisis and Espionage During the Cold War (4x9)

Uitzenddatum: Jun 08, 2015

Espionage is what we don't know much about but what we instantly connect to the Cold War. Especially, the CIA and the KGB with their double agents were infamous for their activities and were the source of many movies and books. But not always did the provocation between East and West take place in secrecy. In 1961 the US, under John F. Kennedy’s order, wanted to overthrow Fidel Castro’s Cuban Revolution, all the while, the Soviet Union started placing Missiles and troops in Cuba, aimed at potential attacks and defense against America and as an answer of America placing Jupiter ballistic missiles in Turkey, aimed against the Soviet Union. When American spies caught on to the USSR’s military Tactics, Kennedy openly warned Nikita Khrushchev about potential Nuclear retaliation. All of this lead up to the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs invasion, Brett explains how this almost resulted in an atomic war, this episode on IT’S HISTORY.