THE rumors and accusations about the massive Soviet buildup in Castro’s Cuba had to be answered. New York’s Republican Senator Kenneth Keating vowed to eat his hat if his charges were not right.

As a part of the Cold War, the U.S. was extremely concerned about countries falling under the Soviet communist influence and umbrella. That fear was magnified in the case of Cuba. Tensions between ...

Inside the crates were MiG-15s and -19s, the first weapons in a buildup in Cuba that included Soviet fighters, bombers, radar, anti-aircraft batteries, and eventually the nuclear missiles that ...

This would influence some of the decisions he took ... In response, America stopped buying goods such as sugar from Cuba. The communist Soviet Union stepped in and agreed to buy large quantities ...

Nikita Khrushchev continued to aid in the spread of communism around the world and Kennedy wanted to show the American public he would not be bullied by the Soviet ... power in Cuba, just 90 ...

The United States, already concerned with Castro's anti-American rhetoric, saw the agreement as a betrayal, and asked U.S. companies in Cuba not to refine the Soviet crude oil. Relations began ...

Cuba adopted a new tax code this week and said it would loosen regulations on some state companies while turning others into cooperatives, as one of the world's last Soviet-style economies moves ...

A judge had blocked the president’s push to close down Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a federally financed news ...