Read the following passage and answer the questions, based on what is stated or implied in the

passage: Declassification of government documents has shed new light on the events comprising the

Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. Prior to the accessibility of these records, the only source of

account of the Crisis for scholars and historians were the personal memoirs and narratives of the

officials who served under Kennedy and Krushchev during this period. Many of declassified

documents are transcriptions and notes of meetings between members of the CIA and President

Kennedy‟s Cabinet, as well as the President himself. The revelations in these documents have

demonstrated the inadvertent inaccuracies and intended obscurities inherent in the first-person

narratives of the Crisis, and has aided historians from all three countries involved in the Crisis to get

a more authentic representation of what truly transpired, and for what reasons. Of perhaps the most

interest to historians are declassified correspondence between John F. Kennedy and Nikita

Krushchev that challenge the idea that the height of the Crisis extended only over the course of

thirteen days. Indeed, these letters indicate that the Crisis was far from resolved by Khrushchev‟s

October 28 decision to withdraw the Soviet Missiles from Cuba; instead it endured far into the

following month, while slept fitfully under the illusion of peace. 

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