JFK's Team of Advisors; Cuban Missile Crisis

Top Secret CIA memorandum prepared for the Executive Commitee (“EXCOMM”) of President Kennedy’s National Security Council regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 29, 1962.

The president needs a good team.

In October 1962, President Kennedy received this top secret memorandum from the CIA. It warned of the imminent threat of nuclear war with the Sov…