Tag: Cuban Missile Crisis

Those who think “Fake News” started with Trump and the media’s “slobbering love affair” with a U.S. president started with Obama should have seen John F. Kennedy’s term. Generals Curtis Le May and Maxwell Taylor represented opposite poles of the military establishment. yelled then Navy Chief George Anderson upon hearing on October 28, 1962, how JFK "solved" the missile crisis. But not for the Soviets. "We ended up getting exactly what we'd wanted all along," snickered Nikita Khrushchev in his diaries, “security for Fidel Castro’s regime and American missiles removed from Turkey and Italy. The genuine threat came --not from Moscow—but from the Castros and Che. The Coast Guard in Florida got 12 new boats and seven new planes to make sure Castro remained unmolested. JFK's Missile Crisis “solution” also pledged that he immediately pull the rug out from under Cuba’s in-house freedom-fighters. He labeled the thousands of Cuban anti-Communist rebels, then battling savagely and virtually alone in Cuba's countryside, with small arms shipments from their compatriots in South Florida as their only lifeline.