SOURCES OF JFK’S CUBA POLICY, 1962

DOMESTIC

• POLITICS: JFK’S PROMISES AND REPUBLICAN CRITICISMS

• IDEOLOGY: THE THREAT OF CASTRO’S NATIONALISM

• THE CREDIBILITY ISSUE

• OPERATION MONGOOSE: CIA AND THE MAFIA

• DECISIONMAKING PROCESS: ExCOMM’S INDECISION ABOUT SOVIET MOTIVES AND CONSEQUENCES OF ACTION

• PRESSURES FROM THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF

INTERNATIONAL

• THE BAY OF PIGS LEGACY

• THE VIENNA SUMMIT WITH KHRUSHCHEV

• KREMLIN POLITICS: THE U-2 AFFAIR; THE CHINA FACTOR; INVASION OF CUBA?

• THE MISSILE GAP

• IMPACT ON U.S. NATO ALLIES: TURKEY AND BERLIN