People of the Revolution and the USSR
Security, intelligence and policing
United States state institutions (state)
Citizenship: United States
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- Allen Dulles Allen Dulles The American intelligence official who institutionalized covert war
- John Alexander McCone John Alexander McCone CIA director who alone warned that Soviet missiles were coming to Cuba
- Edward Geary Lansdale Edward Lansdale The Mongoose architect whose six-phase Cuba overthrow plan convinced the Soviets invasion was coming
- Arthur Lundahl Arthur C. Lundahl The founding father of photo interpretation whose analysts spotted Soviet missiles in Cuba and triggered the crisis
- McGeorge Bundy McGeorge Bundy The National Security Advisor who chose not to wake the president on the first night of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Leonard H. Perroots Leonard H. Perroots An intelligence officer whose restraint mattered at the nuclear brink