Cuba. After the latest photos received from spy planes, the White House debates what to do. Ted Sorensen proposes sending in the 82nd Airborne, Curtis LeMay suggests deploying force, Vice President Johnson suggests cutting off the snake’s head, Dean Acheson says the Russians would retaliate against Turkey and the Americans, under the Atlantic Pact, would be forced to attack the USSR directly. What the Americans don’t know is that the Cubans have an agreement with the Soviets stipulating that in the event of an American attack, they must launch nine missiles against the United States. Sergei Khrushchev himself will later reveal that this was the plan to stop the invasion.
