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After a U-2 Mission was flown, duplicates were made from the film taken. One set remained at the base for safekeeping, the other was flown to Washington D.C. to be analyzed. The film would then be delivered to an elite team of CIA photo interpreters, who worked primarily in a vacated automotive building, to remain unknown. Using different methods, the CIA was able to keep the Government informed on the type, range, and completion of the missile sites.

After a U-2 Mission was flown, duplicates were made from the film taken. One set remained at the base for safekeeping, the other was flown to Washington D.C. to be analyzed. The film would then be delivered to an elite team of CIA photo interpreters, who worked primarily in a vacated automotive building, to remain unknown. Using different methods, the CIA was able to keep the Government informed on the type, range, and completion of the missile sites.

==Expanse of The Crisis==

==ExComm==

The United States discovered that the [[Soviet Union]] was installing offensive missiles capable of nuclear warheads at air bases in Cuba. The potentially nuclear missiles would soon be able to launch and strike the U.S. within minutes of launch.  Washington D.C. was well within their range.  President Kennedy demanded that the Soviets remove the missiles. To ensure this would happen, and to insure no further development of the missile base, he sent the U.S. navy to blockade the island. Secret negotiations ensued. The Russians demanded that U.S. nuclear missiles in Turkey be removed for the removal of missiles in Cuba, but this was rejected. Eventually, [[Nikita Khrushchev]], the Soviet premier at the time, backed down to avoid a possible war with the United States and to maintain a relationship with Cuba.

The ExComm, or Executive Committee, was the group of government officials whose office or relationship directly played a part in the Cuban Missile Crisis. The ExComm investigated new information, and thought out all possible options, for President Kennedy to consider. The Excomm met at unusual times and in unusual manners in order to keep the situation secret for the time being. In one instance, several members crowded into one car, in order to avoid suspicion.

 

Overall, the Excomm was composed of 22 members including:

 

*George W.Ball'', Under Secretary of State''

*C. Douglas Dillon'', Secretary of the Treasury''

*William C. Foster'', Head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency''

*Roswell Gilpatrick'', Deputy Secretary of Defense''

*U. Alexis Johnson'', Deputy Under Secretary for Political Affairs, State Department''

*John F. Kennedy'', President''

*Robert F. Kennedy'', Attorney General''

*Edwin M. Martin'', Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs, State Department''

*John A. McCone'', Director - Central Intelligence Agency''

*Robert S. McNamara'', Secretary of Defense''

*Paul H. Nitze'', Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs, Department of Defense''

*Kenneth O'Donnell'', Special Assistant to the President''

*Dean Rusk'', Secretary of State''

*Bramley Smith'', Executive Secretary''

*Theodore C. Sorensen'', Special Counsel to the President''

*Adlai E. Stevenson'', United States Ambassador to the United Nations''

*Maxwell D. Taylor'', Military Advisor to the President and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff''

*Llewellyn E. Thompson'', United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union''

<ref>http://www.jfk.org/Research/Cuba/Missile_Crisis.htm</ref>

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