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Were going to start with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cuban missile crisis was 1962. It took place over 13 very, very stressful days in october 1962. The United States at that point had long been flying High Altitude surveillance flights over the nation of cuba, but on october 14th, 1962 a u2 surveillance flight picked up imagery in cuba of something that started that whole crisis, started that whole standoff. Its interesting. The Cuban Missile Crisis is very precisely identified in all the history books as having started on october 16th. Two days after that u2 spy plane captured those images in ...

Off the street in moscow. he was the highest ranking soviet officer to have ever spied for the u.s. or great britain up until that time. the kbg snatched him off the street and charged him with high treason and espionage. he was convicted and in the spring of 1963 they killed him. they executed him inside the prison in moscow. they dumped his ashes in a mass grave. even today in 2018 the cia calls oleg penkovsky one of the most valuable assets in the history of the usa. from the other side of the equation, from the soviet perspecti perspective, he was seen as one of the most damaging traitors ...