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Why was the outcome of the Cuban missile crisis viewed as a failure for krushchev

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The Cuban Missile Crisis is an intelligence failure, which almost led to a global nuclear war. HUMINT and COMINT under Kennedy failed to confirm the true intentions of Soviet Union towards Cuba. It was also a failure on Kennedy's part not to understand the point of view of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.

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