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Sources from the Gale Virtural Reference Library
Primary Sources
Nikita Khrushchev's to President Kenney
Documents related to the Cuban Missile Crisis made available on the National Security Agency website
The Cuban Missle Crisis via The National Security Archive
Memorandum from Joint Chiefs of Staff to Robert McNamara, "Cuba" (April 10, 1962).
Memorandum of Project Mongoose Meeting (October 4, 1962).
Memorandum by Theodore Sorenson, [Objections to U.S. Airstrike on Cuba] (October 20, 1962).
Notes by Robert McNamara on Meeting with John Kennedy (October 21, 1962).
Sources from the Gale Virtual Library
Vietnam Online via PBS
The Nation: The My Lai Massacre via Time Magazine
Take a Closer Look
Primary Sources
The Iran-Contra Affair 20 Years On - Documents Spotlight Role of Reagan, Top Aides housed at the National Security Archive
Documents via the National Security Archive reposted by Brown University.
The Contras, Cocaine and Covert Operations - National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 2
The Deputy Director of the CIA Advises on the Situation in Nicaragua - CIA, Memorandum from DDI Robert M. Gates to DCI William J. Casey, "Nicaragua," SECRET, 14 December 1984, George Washington University, The National Security Archive, The Iran-Contra Affair 20 Years On
Caspar W. Weinberger, Diary Entry for 7 December 1985, (Washington, DC: National Archives); available from The National Secruity Archive, The Iran-Contra Affair 20 Years On
National Security Council, "National Security Planning Group Minutes: Subject: Central America, SECRET," 25 June 1984, (Washington, DC: National Archives), available from The National Security Archive, The Iran-Contra Affair 20 Years On
United States Central Intelligence Agency, The Freedom Fighter's Manual (New York: Grove Press, [1985]).
Topic overviews as well as the Ronald Reagan's "Address to the Nation on the Meetings with Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev in Iceland, October 13, 1986"
Topic Overview and Background Information
Military Resources: Bay of Pigs Invasion & Cuban Missile Crisis via the National Archives
Bay of Pigs: 40 years after The National Security Archive site provides a thorough history of the Bay of Pigs invasion with links to full-text documents and audio recordings.
The CIA's Internal Probe of the Bay of Pigs Affair
Created by Michael Warner, this CIA website focuses on the CIA inquiry into the government's handling of the Cuban Bay of Pigs operation.
Iranian Hostage Crisis including primary source documents via PBS
Understanding the Iran-Contra Affair via Brown University