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• - RealAudio files of recordings made in Kennedy's Oval Office during the crisis. The site includes extensive notes on each recording.
  
• - Illustrated site from the Federation of American Scientists which focuses on the role of overhead photography in identifying the missile sites in Cuba. Site also includes edited CIA documents and links to other sites.
  
• - A virtual exhibit from Le Mémorial de Caen--a peace museum in France--on the crisis. Includes timeline, text, photos, and a newspaper archive. Site is available in English, Spanish, and French.
  
• - Extensive collection of U.S. government documents from the missile crisis period. Plus list of key players, glossary of abbreviations, and sources.
  
• - List of links to documents on Cuba, the Bay of Pigs, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  
• - US Department of State documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis and after.
  
• - News account of comments on the crisis by Sergei Khrushchev, the son of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Premier in 1962 and a chief architect of the plan to place missiles in Cuba.
  
• - Site for the 40th anniversary exhibit at the John F. Kennedy Library has a chronology and extensive links to documents and audio files.
  
• - Timeline and commentary on the missile crisis, from a Marxist perspective.
  
• - Archive of National Security Agency documents during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  
• - US CIA analysis of denial and deception efforts, beginning in the spring of 1962.
  
• - US Air Force Museum discusses the use of U-2 and RF-101 reconaissance aircraft during the missile crisis. Includes information on the camera systems.
  
• - Extracts from Naval Secretary's reports, participating ships and units, operational overview, and bibliography.
  
• - Brief official overview of the role of the National Security Agency in the crisis.
  
• - Comprehensive account of the events from the US National Security Archive. Includes declassified documents, audio files, photographs, and commentary.
  
• - Max Frankel, a reporter for the New York Times in 1963, gives a brisk tour of the crisis.
  
• - Transcript of the famous debate between U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Adlai E. Stevenson and Soviet representative Valerian A. Zorin in the U.N. Security Council.
  
• - An overview, plus links, of the military operations aspects of the crisis.
  
• - US socialist analysis of Kennedy-Khrushchev agreement's detrimental effect on world workers' movements.
  
• - This Thinkquest site (geared to high school students) gives an overview of the Cuban Missile Crisis and includes documents, images, history, and analysis.
  
• - Copies and translation of letters exchanged between Premier Khrushchev and President Kennedy during the crisis.