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U-2 photograph of IL-28 bomber crates at San Julian airfield

CIA photograph of crates of soviet planes.

U-2 photograph showing surface-to-surface cruise missile (named “Kennel” by the U.S., FKR in Soviet plans) launch area at Banes

U.S. Navy low-level photograph of San Cristobal MRBM site no. 1 (mission led by Commander William Ecker).

NPIC drawing of nuclear warhead bunker under construction

October 29, 1962: Low-level photography reveals Soviet removal of missile erectors and transporters at San Cristobal

November 6, 1962: Soviet personnel and six missile transporters loading onto ship transport at Casilda port. (Note shadow at lower right of RF-101 reconnaissance jet taking the photograph.)

Graphic from Military History Quarterly of the U.S. invasion plan, 1962.

October 14, 1962: 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 named San Cristobal no. 1 (the photo is labeled 15 October for the day it was analyzed and printed).

CIA briefing board for JFK showing range of Soviet MRBMs (Bobby Kennedy on 16 October jokingly asked whether the missiles could hit Oxford, Mississippi, where federal marshals had intervened only two weeks earlier, so Oxford was included). PSALM was the special codeword for intelligence data on missiles in Cuba, a compartment created at President Kennedy’s insistence for greater control of this sensitive information.

Logada Whaling Ship Replica

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