Germany

I. Potsdam Agreement

II. Bevin’s plan for economic unity

III. Currency reform, 1948

IV. Perceptions vs. misperceptions

A. Roscoe Hillenkoetter’s Questions

V. Berlin Blockade

A. Airlift

The U-2/IDEALIST

I. Soviet missile testing site at Kapustin Yar

II. RB-57 flight

III. Eisenhower’s position

IV. Utility-2 plane

V. Khruschev shoots down “Open Skies” Policy

VI. U-2 missions

“Stupid U-2 Mess”

I. Gary Powers shot down, 1 May 1960

A. …and the S.O.B. lives!

II. US cover-up and failure

III. Collapse of Paris Summit

Missile Deployment

I. Khrushchev’s methods

II. McCone’s concerns and “the honeymoon telegrams”

A. U-2 Flight, 14 Oct 1962

B. Oleg Vladimirovich Penkosky’s intelligence

III. State of Soviet intelligence

IV. US intelligence access

Missile Crisis

I. Blockade/Quarantine

II. U-2 plane downed

III. US violation of Soviet air space

IV. Turkey for Cuba quid pro quo