Cuban Missile Crisis: The photos

Witness History

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🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In 1962, the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Jo Fidgen spoke to American Intelligence officer Dino Brugioni who played a crucial role as the crisis unfolded. Dino was a CIA expert whose job was to interpret the photographs of missiles in Cuba. This programme was first broadcast in 2012. (Photo: Dino Brugioni. Credit: The Washington Post/Getty Images)

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0:37.3	Hello and welcome to the witness history podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:42.5	It's 60 years since the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
0:48.5	In this program first broadcast in 2012,
0:51.7	Joe Fidgen spoke to an American intelligence officer who played a crucial role
0:56.3	as the crisis unfolded.
0:58.4	It's the 15th of October 1962, and Dino Bregioni, a CIA imagery expert,
1:05.2	is scrutinizing photos taken by US spy planes over Cuba.
1:09.7	We saw Russian tents.
1:11.9	They were alien.
1:12.7	You wouldn't expect to see a 100-foot tents or 65-foot vehicles on a farm.
1:19.2	So that immediately caught our attention.
1:22.4	Then we started measuring the objects, and they came out to be the SS-4
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