My documents come from both the United States government and unbiased news sources, as well as simple photographs. While the newsreels are likely going to not say anything in bad taste about the United States, they mostly air the footage they are able to take and build off of that. The government documents depict an American government that is baffled at some times by how to deal with the Cubans, and self-assured at others. There are also pieces from communists, namely Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro themselves, explaining why they do what they do and why they will not back down. I believe that this array of sources is solid for showing different sides of the Fidel Castro regime’s dealings with the United States through the 1960s, as there is not a focus on one side of the story.
- 1: Fidel Castro, Second Declaration of Havana (1962)
- 2: Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev
- 3: Nikita Khrushchev, Letter from Nikita Khrushchev to President John F. Kennedy Regarding Cuba (1962)
- 4: Historic Newsreel Footage of the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- 5: Lyman Louis Lemnitzer, Narrative of the Anti-Castro Operation Zapata (1961)
- 6: Roberto Machado Noa, United States Breaks Diplomatic Relations with Cuba (1961)
- 7: Office of the General Counsel, Draft of a Study of General Pressures to Create a Contingency (1963)
- 8: Office of the Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, Annex No. 11 Proposed Operation Against Cuba (1961-63)
- 9: Plan for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba Codenamed Northwoods (1962)
- 10: Three Lions, Castro Militia (1961)