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Memo from Mr. Martin to Under Secretary Concerning A Contingency Plan for Brazil (18855): 12/12/1963

This document is a memo describing possible US responses to varying changes to the Goulart Regime in Brazil. It outlines what those changes may be,…

No left turn

Cartoon shows newly inaugurated Brazilian president Joao Belchior Marques Goulart in the saddle of a horse labeled "Brazil." The left rein is…

Khrushchev expresses outrage at Kennedy’s establishment of quarantine in Cuba.

President John F. Kennedy is informed of the Cuban Missile Crisis

President John F. Kennedy (at right, in rocking chair) meets with United States Air Force (USAF) officers who took part in aerial photo-reconnaissance…

Prisoners of Brigade 2506 guarded by Cuban Fidelistas

Prisoners of Brigade 2506 guarded by Cuban Fidelistas after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.

Report, Central Intelligence Agency, Guatemala, Situation Report 46

This excerpt comes from a CIA report on Guatemala in 1950. This section describes potential threats and opportunities Guatemala poses for the US,…

September 17, 1974 - Cabinet Meeting

A typed transcription and original handwritten notes from a cabinet meeting on 09/17/1974 discussing US operations in Chile including covert…

The First U-2 Photographs of Soviet Missiles in Cuba 1962 Image 1/2

Soviet truck convoy deploying missiles near San Cristobal, Cuba, on Oct. 14, 1962. Taken by Maj. Steve Heyser's U-2, it was the first picture proving…

The First U-2 Photographs of Soviet Missiles in Cuba 1962 Image 2/2

U-2 photograph of MRBM site two nautical miles away from the Los Palacios deployment—the second set of MRBMs found in Cuba. This site was subsequently…