Castro announces that Cuba is taking measures that would make any direct U.S. attack on Cuba the equivalent of a world war. He claims that the U.S.S.R. has invested greatly in helping defend his country.
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Cuban missile crisis
CIA Director John McCone sends a memo to Kennedy expressing his belief that Soviet medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBMs) will be deployed in Cuba
soviet minister said that if an american attack on cuban could be a soviet war
Kennedy orders a U-2 reconnaissance flight over western Cuba,
Kennedy departs Washington for scheduled campaign speeches in Cleveland and the West Coast.
Khrushchev announces over Radio Moscow that he has agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba.
