Aug. 23, 1962
Kennedy requests that the Defense Department investigate any possible actions that could be taken to remove the U.S. Jupiter nuclear missiles, shown above, from Turkey.
He then calls a meeting of the National Security Council and orders a contingency plan to deal with the possibility of Soviet missiles being deployed to Cuba. American plans include a stepped-up sabotage campaign against Cuba.
U.S. intelligence records pilots talking in Russian on Cuban Revolutionary Air Force airwaves and issues another report concerning Soviet ships heading for Cuba.
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