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This morning's letter is not Kruschev
Last night's letter was
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The evidence supports
only one conclusion
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There's been a coup
and Kruschev was replaced overnight
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Dean?
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It does suggest he's been co-opted
by hard-line elements
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Which at the end of the day
amounts to the same thing
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A puppet Kruschev
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and a hard-line Soviet government
pulling the strings
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No deal. And the missiles
are almost operational
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What if the Soviets have no intention
of honoring this second deal?
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The tomorrow
they make another condition
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Meanwhile
the quarantine isn't working
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and they're completing work
on the missiles sites
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Sir, I think we have to issue
pre- invasion orders for our forces
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Mr. President
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This morning's photography is in
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It appears the Soviet have commenced a
crash program to ready their missiles
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The first missiles
become operational last night
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We expect they'll all be operational
in 36 hours
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Then we're out of time
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We have to go in
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That may not be
as easy as we thought, either
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We have confirmation
the Soviets have also deployed
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battlefield nuclear weapons to Cuba
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FROGS, we call them
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Short- range tactical nukes
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We don't know whether
they've delegated release authority
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to their local commanders
for use on our invasion troops
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But the good news is
as of this moment
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we know where the FROGS are
and we can target them, too
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But the longer we wait
the harder it's going to get
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We have no choice
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General, issue orders to our forces
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to be prepared to execute
the air strikes Monday morning
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and the follow-on invasion
according to the schedule thereafter
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I'll need the official release orders
on my desk Sunday night