The Unknown Hero of Cuban Missile Crisis

... conditions to Moscow. The Americans named October 27 Black Saturday, as Nikita Khrushchev was silent. By the morning of October 29, the missiles were to have been assembled and armed, and the same day President Kennedy promised his hawks would attack Cuba. Several hours before the attack, Alexander Feklisov and John Scali met again, and the Soviet station chief clearly suggested that if the Americans land in Cuba, Nikita Khrushchev might order the capture of West Berlin. Angered by the Americans, Alexander Feklisov was unauthorized to ...