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In October 1962, Fidel Castro sent a letter to Khrushchev requesting a nuclear first strike on the USA, and ordered artillery to fire on U.S. planes.
Reach of nuclear weapons placed by Soviets in 1962.
The world is observing another anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the days in October 1962 when the Soviet Union placed offensive nuclear missiles into Cuba, the United States blockaded the island, and Moscow withdrew its missiles after eleven days. This crisis pushed the world dangerously close to nuclear war.
The Castro regime often complains about the United States placing a blockade on Cuba, but does not discuss the circumstances surrounding the decision.
President John F. Kennedy addresses the nation on threat of nuclear weapons in Cuba.
President John F. Kennedy imposed a naval blockade on Cuba on October 22, 1962, after spy planes discovered Soviet nuclear missile sites on the Communist-ruled island. On November 20, 1962, the blockade was lifted, less than a month later following the end of the crisis.
It is also important to remember what role Fidel Castro played in the crisis.
October 26, 1962: Castro sends letter to Khrushchev requesting nuclear first strike on USA, and orders artillery to fire on American planes.
U2 plane
On this day in 1962, Fidel Castro sent a letter to Nikita Khrushchev asking the Soviet leader to launch a nuclear first strike on the United States. The Cuban dictator also ordered all of his artillery to begin firing on American reconnaissance aircraft at the dawn of “Black Saturday." On October 27, 2022, when tensions reached their highest point during the Cuban Missile Crisis, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down and the pilot, Major Rudolf Anderson Jr., was killed.
Memorial in South Carolina for Major Rudolf Anderson Jr., U.S. pilot shot down on October 27, 1963
Black Saturday (October 27, 1963) was Castro’s Day
On October 27, 1963, Fidel Castro came dangerously close to igniting World War Three. On the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 14, 2012, the National Archives and the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum hosted a forum titled "50th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis," during which scholar and former CIA analyst Brian Latell outlined Castro's attempts to spark a conflict while Kennedy and Khrushchev sought to avoid war.
Despite the Castro brothers' public statements to the contrary, the Castro regime and the Soviet Union had a secret alliance in 1960 to advance the goals of international communist in the Americas. Notwithstanding this close and conspiratorial relationship, Castro's efforts to provoke World War 3 alarmed Khrushchev, and the timing of his concessions to the US may have been motivated by a fear that allowing the crisis to continue would provide Castro with additional opportunities to launch a global nuclear war. "Castro was willing to reduce Cuba to powder," Latell explained.
“Castro's letter calling for a first strike against the U.S. concerned the Soviet premier and spurred [Khrushchev] to try to resolve the standoff,” said Michelle Paranzino, an assistant professor of strategy and policy at the U.S. Naval War College.
President Kennedy’s letter to the widow of Major Anderson, killed in Cuba on October 27th. National Archives
Brian Latell observed on the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisisthat “Nikita Khrushchev believed, I think until his death, that Fidel Castro had personally ordered the shoot-down by a Soviet ground-to-air missile site, Khrushchev believed that Castro had actually somehow been responsible for it himself."
Fyodor Burlatsky, who was a speechwriter for Nikita Khrushchev, in 1992 wrote an OpEd published in The New York Times titled “Castro Wanted a Nuclear Strike” in which he referenced Fidel Castro’s Armageddon letter and how it was received in Moscow.
For me, the culmination of the Cuban missile crisis was not Oct. 27, 1962, when John F. Kennedy awaited a reply to his ultimatum to pull the missiles off the island, but the telegram Fidel Castro sent to Nikita Khrushchev earlier: "I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution."
Governor Jeb Bush and Frank Calzon in a 2012 OpEd about the Cuban Missile Crisis published in The Wall Street Journal observed that the behavior of the Castro regime during this existential crisis was not an anomaly, but part of a pattern that had occurred prior to the October Crisis and would continue over the next six decades.
“The past decades have shown that the behavior of the Castro brothers in 1962 was perfectly characteristic. Fidel Castro has never shied away from a political gamble such as deploying secret Soviet missiles and then lying about them. He assured other governments that he would never do such a thing, just as the Soviet Union's ambassador to the United States told the Kennedy administration that rumors about missiles were false. But the missiles were there, and their deployment was an effort to intimidate and blackmail America.”
For example, the Castro regime was founded in terrorism, and for the past 64 years, this dictatorship sponsored and coordinated terrorism and coordinated terrorism in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Africa, first through the Tricontinental, and later through the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (OSPAAAL).
Premiers Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union and Fidel Castro of Cuba shake hands and start to embrace in Moscow. Castro made a state visit to the Soviet Union in 1963.
Nonetheless, the Castro regime and its representatives continue to complain bitterly that Cuba is on the US State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism, and they deny their role in international terrorism while carrying it out Havana maintains extensive ties with state terror sponsors Iran, Syria, and North Korea, as well as terrorist organizations Hamas, Hezbollah, the ELN, and others.Today, Cuban soldiers are fighting in Moscow's illegal war in Ukraine, dressed in Russian uniforms.
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