The Secret Soviet Buildup in Cuba, 1962

Maskirova fueled the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The USSR began a secret operation to place nuclear-capable SS-4 and SS-5 surface-to-surface missiles in Cuba in the late spring of 1962. The Soviet operation was code-named “Anadyr,” which is the name of a river and harbor town on the Bering Sea in the far northeast of Soviet Russia. Naming the operation for a…