On this fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the man who was its catalyst, Fidel Castro, is eighty-six years old, his state of mortality the topic of fervid gossip and speculation.

Stranger-than-fiction plans are in place as the CIA tries everything to assassinate Fidel ...

Kuznetsov, dispatched by the Kremlin to take over the Russian end of UN negotiations on the Cuban crisis ... dismantling their missile bases there, despite Premier Fidel Castro's objections ...

President Fidel Castro sat next to actor-producer Kevin ... Costner's movie about the Cuban Missile Crisis. "It was fantastic. I enjoyed it very much," Costner told reporters Tuesday as he left ...

He had already agreed to participate in Operation Mongoose, another CIA plot to remove Fidel Castro and the communist regime from power. As the missile crisis unfolded, he was awaiting his orders ...

Jeffrey Goldberg's online account just now of his recent visit with Fidel Castro ... of the Cuban Missile Crisis closely enough to know whether or how often Castro has expressed similar pentimenti ...

(File Photo) Havana: Fidel Castro was the last of the three main protagonists in one of the Cold War's scariest episodes: The 1962 Cuban missile crisis, which raised fears of a global nuclear war.

Nothing caught global attention and heightened tensions as did the Cuban Missile Crisis. The new young President John F. Kennedy faced off with the Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and the ...

There’s a lot more, and it’s important that young Americans, with no memory of the Cold War, be informed of some other highlights of Fidel Castro’s rule. The Cuban Missile Crisis Castro ...

Kuznetsov, dispatched by the Kremlin to take over the Russian end of UN negotiations on the Cuban crisis ... dismantling their missile bases there, despite Premier Fidel Castro's objections ...