The Agency: Inside the CIA Page #5
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established the fact
that a series of
offensive missile sites
is now in preparation on
that imprisoned island.
The purpose of these
bases can be none other
than to provide a nuclear
strike capapility
against the western hemisphere.
President Kennedy
then delivered a swift message
"You shoot down
another airplane,
or even attempt to do
it, you're finished.
We will, we will wipe out all
of your missiles and crews
in Cuba. We'll bomb them. "
At 6:
30 on October18th, Kennedy met
with the National Security
Council in a committee named:
With the advice of
Excomm, Kennedy ordered
a full naval quarantine of Cuba
in an effort to stem the flow
of Soviet weapons
into the country.
Kennedy condemning the action
and said the quarantine
constitutes an act
of aggression,
propelling mankind
into the abyss of a world
nuclear missile war.
This urgent
transformation of Cuba
into an important strategic base
by the presence of these large,
long-range, and clearly
offensive weapons
of sudden mass destruction,
constitutes an explicit threat
to the peace and security
of all the Americas.
Our unswerving objective,
therefore, must be to prevent
the use of these
missiles against this
or any other country, and
or elimination. The
massive military buildup
around the island of Cuba
continued as the Soviet Union
refused to back down. But
the CIA was one step ahead.
The CIA had an ace
up its sleeve.
The CIA had a spy inside
the Soviet Union,
Colonel Oleg Penkovsky, who was
a Soviet intelligence colonel
that had access to
all of their missile
technology. And
that's how we knew
that we were 13 days away from
to be launched against
the United Statete
Khrushchev had no choice
but to agree to remove
his missiles because
he knew and we knew
we still had the Soviet
Union ououunned.
The US had nuclear
military superiority.
President Kennedy
wawaable to say,
or we will take 'em out. "
That meant that Khrushchev
had no choice but to yield,
back down, and move 'em out.
He struck a deal.
After some negotiation,
to withdraw.
However, in trade,
Khrushchev demanded that
Kennedy would remove
his missile launchers
from Turkey and Italy.
And Kennedy said,
"Of course, yeah,
whatever you say. " We
always try to be nice
once we defeat 'em, you know,
that's the American way.
But Khrushchev asked
for one more assurance
from Kennedy. Then he said,
"I want you to promise to
keep hands off of Castro. "
And Kennedy agreed. By
that one... agreement
that Kennedy made, created
the longest-living dictator
in the history of the world.
Couple of things that we learned
about the Cuban missile crisis
later, we had no
idea how dangerous
and how close we came to
a nuclear holocaustst
the crisis met and found
out a startling fact.
Americans involved
and the Russians involved
in the crisis met in Havana
to have an open discussion
about what really went on.
And we were stunned at
what Russians told us.
They said, "We had authority,
without communicating
with Moscow,
to launch those nuclear weapons
against the United States,
if we felt we were
being attacked. "
Despite the danger, the
CIA had correctly guessed
Soviet intentions and blocked
what might have become
a tipping point in the Cold War.
From the earliest years
of the CIA, the agency
has always employed
cutting-edge technology to
succeed at its mission,
giving it an advantage
in the battle of wits
against the Soviet Union.
The high technology
that came out of
these early days,
went on to become the
most advanced technology
the world had ever seen.
Intelligence gathering
and technology
has gone hand in hand
since the early days
of espionage. Cryptology
has always played
a central role in America's
intelligence gathering efforts.
Cryptology is the practice and
study of hiding information,
and nowhere was this practice
more valuable than in wartime.
During World War II, British
intelligence officers
on a machine called:
allowing the Allies to intercept
and read communications
coming out of Axis Europe.
Cryptology plays
such an important role in
keeping the CIA's secrets
that there's a monument
on the CIA campus
One with a puzzle
that even the agency
hasn't been able to solve.
which was developed in
19... late 1980's, uh,
wanted to, uh, to
put works of art
in the various public buildings
and one of them was CIA,
and a gentleman named Sanborn,
uh, came up with the idea
of a sculpture with a... with
a cryptogram in it,
and they hired him and
he accessed the talent
of uh, a then-recently retired
cryptographer from CIA,
who helped him
develop the statue,
and they developed, uh,
a four part, uh, puzzle
that... that's in the statue.
Uh, subsequently, uh,
studied it, uh, using uh,
a hand, uh, you know,
paper and pencil method,
of the four parts out of,
I think it's 845 letters or so,
secret. And, uh,
that's the challenge,
take that challenge up,
it's available. In
the early decades
of the Cold War,
the United States
made up for the lack of
spies in the Soviet Union
by using their
technological advantage.
An advantage called...
Mounted wiwi advanced cameras,
it gave the US knowledge
of Soviet military strength, but
it was capable of much more.
We had onboard the U-2
more than cameras.
We had signal intercept
here, we could listen
to the Russian communications,
, as the plane flew over.
We could tell when their
fighters are trying
to intercept it.
They never could,
but they were trying.
We knew their missiles
uh, against the airplane,
which is flying
around 70,000 feet.
The U-2 was the first high
altitude recon aircraft
operated against
the Soviet Union.
It was used during the
Cuban missile crisis
and during overflights of
Russia until one was shot down
in May of 1960.
But they finally,
they finally got it
in May Day 1960.
But even before that,
the CIA realized
that they needed an
airplane better,
that could not only fly higher
above the... what the missiles
could fire, but
it could outfly
the missiles.
The A-12 Oxcart was designed
as the perfect spy plane,
capable of flying
out of the reach
of Soviet missiles
and even radar.
However, there was a problem
with the construction
of the A-12, although
the CIA had a plan.
The US didn't have
enough titanium
to use to build the
airplane, so the CIA
set up a special operation, we
actually bought the titanium,
it was called titanium
sponge, that's the raw form,
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