Blind over Cuba : The Photo Gap and the Missile Crisis /

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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 ha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barrett, David M., 1951-
Other Authors: Holland, Max
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: College Station : Texas A & M Univ Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Politics and government.
Intelligence service > Political aspects
Executive-legislative relations
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Relations executif-legislatif > États-Unis.
Service des renseignements > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Crise de Cuba, oct. 1962.
National security > Political aspects > United States.
Executive-legislative relations > United States.
Intelligence service > Political aspects > United States.
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.
United States
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1961-1963.
United States > Politics and government > 1961-1963.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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