in the Soviet government—and by extension, in her Eastern European satellites—information could be quarantined to a degree unimaginable in the West. To cite one example, even though the deployment of American Jupiter nuclear missiles to Turkey in 1961 was a state secret of the highest order, certainly scores, and probably hundreds, of American officials were involved in some aspect of the mission. By contrast, when Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev chose to install nuclear missiles in Cuba the following year, the group tasked to prepare the groundwork consisted of precisely four Soviet generals
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