Watson Institute for International Studies

The Cuban Missile Crisis at 40: Reflections on the Havana Conference

The files below are provided by the National Security Archive, compiled for the 40th anniversary conference on the missile crisis held in Havana in October 2002. A truly multinational and multi-archival effort, this collection comprises hundreds of new, previously highly classified, records from 10 countries. The main conference briefing book, featuring selections of the most significant new materials, is followed by supplementary documentation from Cuba, the former Soviet Union and the USA (specifically, newly released daily CIA reports and the State Department's FRUS volume on the crisis). Finally, Castro's secret speech of January 1968 is also included to provide more of Cuba's perspective on the "October crisis" of 1962.

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Main Conference Briefing Book: Primary Source Documents
NOTE: Foreign-language documents included in Panels 1-3 of the Main Conference Briefing Book begin with the first page of the original document followed by the translated text of the entire document.
- The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: The Photographs
- Chronologies of the Crisis (pending)
- Panel 1: "After the Bay of Pigs"
- Panel 2: "The Crisis of October"
- Panel 3: "The November Crisis and the Aftermath"
The Cuban Record: Documentos de los Archivos Cubanos (documents in original Spanish only)
The Soviet Record: Documents from Russian and East Bloc Archives (documents in original Russian only) (coming soon)
The CIA Record: Daily Reports on the Cuban Missile Crisis
The U.S. State Department Record: Foreign Relations of the United States 1961-1963, Volume XI, Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath
This volume of the State Department's FRUS series, published in 1996, was edited by Edward C. Keefer, Charles S. Sampson and Louis J. Smith of the Department's Office of the Historian. Its 911 pages of memoranda, telegrams, meeting minutes, briefing papers and other materials represent the official record of U.S. foreign policy with respect to the missile crisis.
Fidel Castro's 1968 Secret Speech on the Cuban Missile Crisis (in original Spanish and English translation)
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