CIA declassifies collection of cold war-era intelligence memos
Source: Associated Press
CIA declassifies collection of cold war-era intelligence memos
Reports on Cuban Missile
Associated Press in Austin, Texas
Wednesday 16 September 2015 15.53 EDT
As the US and Russia reached the brink of nuclear war in 1962, John F Kennedy received top-secret intelligence from the CIA that a new warhead launcher was spotted in Cuba.
Amid those grave concerns, the memo ends on a different note. A US agent in Moscow describes “packed houses and enthusiastic applause” during a run of Russian performances by the New York City Ballet.
That report, given to the US president a day before the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis, is among roughly 19,000 pages of newly declassified CIA documents from the cold war released on Wednesday. Stamped “For the President’s Eyes Only” on some pages, the dossiers were delivered daily by the spy agency to the White House.
Known as the President’s Daily Brief – Barack Obama is the first to swipe through his on a tablet – they are tightly guarded rundowns of CIA intelligence from around the globe. For the first time, some of the oldest briefs being made public, starting with those written in the 1960s for presidents Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson.
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