“If I were Khrushchev,” he said, “I’d put offensive missiles in Cuba.
McCone was the only one who saw the threat clearly.
He had no intelligence, nothing to go on save gut instinct. He had been worrying about that possibility for more than four months. He predicted that the Soviet Union was going to give Castro nuclear weapons-medium-range ballistic missiles capable of striking the United States. McCone remembered “a suggestion being made to liquidate top people in the Castro regime,” including Castro and his brother Raul, the Cuban defense minister, who had just returned from a weapons-buying trip to Moscow. “On August 10, John McCone, Robert Kennedy, and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara met in Secretary of State Dean Rusk’s ornate conference room on the seventh floor of the State Department.
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