cfr.org/articles/major-richard-s-heysers-u-2-mission-discovers-soviet-missiles-in-cuba Major Richard S. Heyser’s U-2 Mission Discovers Soviet Missiles in Cuba
A U-2 flight sixty-four years ago today found Soviet missile launch pads in Cuba, exposing a lie just weeks after Moscow's foreign minister denied any such shipments to the UN. It was the same spy plane program that had humiliated Eisenhower in 1960, and this time it set off the Cuban Missile Crisis.
— via CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)
