Pigs, Missiles and the CIA: Volume 2 - Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro and the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War the Western Allies – led by the US – soon found themselves at odds with the Communist Bloc dominated by the Soviet Union. In the well-known phrase coined by Winston Churchill, an ‘Iron Curtain’ had descended across Europe. In the shadow of this Iron Curtain a conflict of ideologies erupted, known as the Cold War.

Halfway across the globe, in the Caribbean, the island of Cuba had become a playground and haven for rich Americans, and organized...