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Quarantine Announcement Intelligence Support

United States · Government / Democratic Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1962

John A. McCone22 October 1962

Washington · Government / Democratic Party Government

McCone supplied intelligence judgments and photographic evidence supporting Kennedy's public disclosure of the Soviet missile deployment and the decision to impose a quarantine.

Names involved

John A. McCone

Provenance

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