Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/72 - Interview with John McCone, former Director of the CIA, [1989]

Typescript transcript of interview with John Alex McCone, Director, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 1961-1965, relating to the threat made by US President Harry S Truman of the US use of nuclear weapons against Soviet forces occupying northern Iran, [1946]; US/Cuban relations, 1961-1962; the Bay of Pigs incident, Cochinos Bay, Cuba, Apr 1961; US CIA operations in Cuba, 1961-1962; the discovery of the Soviet deployment of SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) and SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) to Cuba through US reconnaissance photography, Oct 1962; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the US naval blockade of Cuba, 1962.