A corporate executive was summoned to the Kremlin during a nuclear quarantine to carry a message that the State Department didn't send, kept secret for days before hitting the press.
By Constance Bell ·
For decades, the details of a Soviet gamble that nearly triggered a global holocaust remained hidden, including how the Kremlin disregarded US spy planes until the very end.
By Roy Castellano ·
Kept Top Secret until its release in the Foreign Relations of the United States series, this 1961 memo weighs the psychological cost to Berliners if a high-stakes summit with Nikita Khrushchev failed.
By Vera Kessler ·
Hundreds of thousands of Cubans faced annihilation while their leader was kept in the dark about a secret deal between Washington and Moscow that traded missiles in Turkey for those in Cuba.
By Roy Castellano ·
East Germans went two months without potatoes and faced a 2 billion mark goods deficit while Khrushchev secretly plotted to surround Berlin with a ring of Soviet tanks.
By Roy Castellano ·
Khrushchev maneuvered to end U-2 flights over Cuba and evade arms inspections, all while the Kremlin kept its own public in the dark about American surveillance.
By Marcus Boone ·
A pilot's wrong turn over the USSR was kept secret to avoid a second front while the White House weighed a general air response as reconnaissance planes took ground fire.
By Roy Castellano ·