John F. Kennedy was Castro’s adversary; Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet premier, was his patron. At one point, I mentioned the letter he wrote to Khrushchev at the height of the crisis ...

President Donald J Trump ordered the National Archives to declassify the JFK Documents in an unredacted format revealing ...

but it pushed Fidel Castro to seek further support from the Soviet Union and their leader, Nikita Khrushchev. It was an embarrassing failure for Kennedy and the CIA. Kennedy had won the ...

In the end, Castro emerged a winner. President Kennedy secretly pledged to Khrushchev that the United States would not invade Cuba. Yet the Cuban revolution continued to face threats, as a U.S ...

Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev, Courtesy: Getty Images Kennedy approved the invasion, and on April 17, 1961, it began. Their forces vastly outnumbered, the invasion forces were swiftly turned ...

During the Kennedy-Khrushchev dialogue that arose in the ... a Cuban revolt against Castro. Probably the first U.S. response would be diplomatic: to persuade the Russians of the advantages of ...

In "A Different Russia: Khrushchev and Kennedy on a Collision Course" (BookBaby), veteran journalist Marvin Kalb writes about the 1963 Cold War summit between President John F. Kennedy and Soviet ...