Blind over Cuba : the photo gap and the missile crisis / David M. Barrett & Max Holland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barrett, David M., 1951-

Contributor:

Holland, Max.

Series:

Foreign relations and the presidency ; no. 11.

Foreign relations and the presidency ; no. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.

Intelligence service--Political aspects--United States.

Intelligence service.

Executive-legislative relations--United States.

Executive-legislative relations.

National security--Political aspects--United States.

National security.

United States--Politics and government--1961-1963.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

College Station [Tex.] : Texas A&M University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, questions persisted about how the potential cataclysm had been allowed to develop. A subsequent congressional investigation focused on what came to be known as the "photo gap": five weeks during which intelligence-gathering flights over Cuba had been attenuated. In Blind over Cuba, David M. Barrett and Max Holland challenge the popular perception of the Kennedy administration's handling of the Soviet Union's surreptitious deployment of missiles in the Western Hemisphere. Rather than epitomizing it as a masterpiece of crisis man

Contents:

The making of a "photo gap": August 29 to October 14, 1962

Obscuring the photo gap

The struggle over the postmortems

Stonewalling the House

The Senate steps in

Tensions within the Kennedy administration: fashioning a unified story

End of the trail: the "interim" report

The costs of managed history

Appendix: a historiography of the photo gap, 1963-2011.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-58424-7

9786613896698

1-60344-772-5

OCLC:

809977875