Annals of secrecy: At height of missile crisis, Pentagon proposed assassination of Cuban officials
Jefferson Morley
February 21, 2014
A newly declassified Pentagon study, published today by the non-profit National Security Archive, sheds new light on the thinking of U.S. military leaders at the height of the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962.
As President Kennedy searched for a solution that did not involve a war that might have gone nuclear, the Pentagon was itching to escalate.
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