The Cuban Missile Crisis: broken ties & a secret pact

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🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The 1961 Bay of Pigs operation was a debacle for the United States that inflamed Cold War tensions to a new height. In the second episode of our series on the Cuban Missile Crisis, Elinor Evans speaks to expert historians Alex von Tunzelmann, Mark White and William Taubman to find out how the failed invasion set the stage for Khrushchev and Castro to form a pact that would lead the world to the brink of nuclear destruction. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.
0:05.0	A bit of a different thing going on this week.
0:07.3	You've been immature and you've lied.
0:10.3	And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.
0:13.9	I was trying to manipulate you.
0:15.7	Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.
0:18.1	I know, I'd be like, are you joking?
0:20.6	I don't know.
0:21.7	I guess you'd have to ask.
0:23.5	Someone that has sex.
0:24.3	Someone that has sex.
0:25.2	Right.
0:26.4	And remember, it's just between us.
0:31.5	In January 1961, upon his arrival in the White House, new US President John F. Kennedy
0:43.3	inherited a plan from his predecessor, Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Central Intelligence Agency,
0:50.3	the CIA, had devised a scheme. In Guatemala, there were a group of Cubans who had fled their
0:58.9	homeland out of disgust at Leader Fidel Castro's policies. The CIA would train, fund and equip
1:06.1	these exiles and then assist them in an amphibious invasion, backed by US strikes on the Cuban Air Force.
1:13.8	The aim to provoke an uprising that would bring about the overthrow of Fidel Castro.
1:20.4	After grappling with this difficult inheritance during the weeks following his inauguration,
1:26.1	Kennedy decided to give the invasion his formal blessing,
1:29.3	but only on the understanding that US involvement in the operation would be hidden.
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