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We Support Chilean Workers+Peasants!

This image shows a weathered mural depicting Salvador Allende with the accompanying text "We Support Chilean Workers+Peasants!" and
"you can kill a…

U.S. hands off : Chile el pueblo vencerá

Protest poster from Chile asserting Chilean independence from the US stating "U.S. hands off /Chile el pueblo vencerá" around an illustration of…

Two more about to blow

Cartoon shows several sombreros. Two, Cuba and Panama, have exploded like volcanos, erupting into an "Anti-U.S. campaign." Two more sombreros, Brazil…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

Prisoners of Brigade 2506 guarded by Cuban Fidelistas

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

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…

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