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Cuban Missile Crisis

U-2 flight espionage returned to Cuba

Sep, 1962
Cuba

In September 1962, analysts from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) noticed that Cuban surface-to-air missile sites were arranged in a pattern similar to those used by the Soviet Union to protect its ICBM bases, leading DIA to lobby for the resumption of U-2 flights over the island.


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