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THE NUCLEAR DECEPTION

The Nuclear Deception

SERVANDO GONZALEZ

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THE NUCLEAR DECEPTION

The Nuclear Deception

Nikita Khrushchev and the

Cuban Missile Crisis

Servando González

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SERVANDO GONZALEZ

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González, Servando, 1935-

The nuclear deception : Nikita Khrushchev and the

Cuban missile crisis / Servando González.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-9711391-5-6 ( soft cover)

1. Cuban missile crisis. 2. United States—Foreign relations—Cuba. 3. Soviet Union—Foreign

relations—United States. 4. Soviet Union—Foreign relations—Cuba. 5. United States—

Foreign relations—1959-1962. I. Title. II. González, Servando, 1935-

Cover design: Damion Gordon/BTP GRAPHX

Cover illustration: Servando González

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THE NUCLEAR DECEPTION

Chapter 10

A Missile is a Missile is a

Missile

This is not a pipe.

—Caption in The Treachery of Images , a 1929

painting by René Magritte depicting a pipe.

The Cuban missile crisis is still a very elusive historical event. For forty years it

has captured the imagination of the media, scholars, and the public alike, produc-

ing a veritable mountain of articles, scholarly essays, and books. Still, after so

much effort by so many privileged minds, some aspects of the Cuban missile

crisis continue to defy any logical explanation and are as puzzling today as they

were at the time of the event. In this chapter, I will study the alleged evidence of

the presence of strategic missiles and their associated nuclear warheads in Cuba

in 1962 from the point of view of semiotics.

Is “Photographic Evidence” Evidence at All?

The official story, offered by the Kennedy administration, and accepted at face

value by most scholars of the Crisis and later popularized by the American main-

stream media, is that, though rumors about the presence of strategic missiles in

Cuba were widespread among Cuban exiles in Florida since mid-1962, 1 the Ameri-

can intelligence community was never fooled by them. To American intelligence

analysts, “only direct evidence, such as aerial photographs, could be convinc-

ing.” 2 It was not until Sunday, 14 October, 1962, that a U-2, authorized at last to

fly over the western part of Cuba, 3 brought the first high-altitude photographs of

what seemed to be Soviet strategic missile sites, in different stages of completion,

deployed on Cuban soil.

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