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White House photograph of President Kennedy meeting with Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko and Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin – in which JFK does not reveal he knows about the missiles, and Gromyko asserts that Soviet military assistance is purely defensive.

Confrontation at the United Nations, October 25, 1962: deputy NPIC director David Parker points out the photographic evidence while U.S. ambassador Adlai Stevenson (at right) describes the photos. USSR ambassador Valerian Zorin is presiding at far left.

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).

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