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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).

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

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.)

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

NPIC drawing of nuclear warhead bunker under construction

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

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

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

CIA photograph of crates of soviet planes.

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.

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.

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