Team B Tackles the CIA

摘要

As the Cold War built toward its peak in the 1960s and into the 1970s, the US Central Intelligence Agency was remarkably mild in its assessments of the strategic plans and intentions of the Soviet Union. The CIA's National Intelligence Estimate of Sept. 19, 1962, said the Russians were not likely to introduce missiles into Cuba. That was four days after the first missiles had arrived there. In October 1964, the NIE said, "We do not believe that the USSR aims at matching the US in numbers of intercontinental delivery vehicles," adding that circumstances appeared "to have ruled out this option."