July in Focus

The events leading up to the Cuban missile crisis as the Soviet military buildup in Cuba gathered momentum exactly half a century ago.

BY RACHEL DOBBS | JULY 17, 2012


July 10, 1962

A second party of Soviet military advisers leave for Cuba by TU-114 plane to reconnoiter additional missile sites. This includes the Soviet rocket forces commander Maj. Gen. Igor Statsenko, shown above at center, and the commander of Soviet forces on Cuba, General Pliyev.

The Soviet passenger ship Khabarovsk departs for Cuba. U.S. intelligence estimates that 740 people are on board.

The Inter-regional Association of Internationalist Fighters (Mezhregional'naya Assotsiatsia Voinov-Internationalistov) 

 

Rachel Dobbs is a research assistant with the Cuban Missile Crisis +50 project. You can follow the project on Twitter at @missilecrisis62.