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====Cuban Missile Crisis==== | ====Cuban Missile Crisis==== | ||
{{Main|Cuban Missile Crisis}}{{missing information|the erroneous and corrected geolocation of Cuba|date=November 2021}} | {{Main|Cuban Missile Crisis}}{{missing information|the erroneous and corrected geolocation of Cuba|date=November 2021}} | ||
NPIC first identified the | NPIC first identified the Soviet Union's basing of missiles in [[Cuba]] in 1962. By exploiting images from [[Lockheed U-2|U-2]] overflights and film from canisters ejected by orbiting [[Corona (satellite)|Corona satellites]],<ref name="NGA history">[https://www.nga.mil/StaticFiles/OCR/nga_history.pdf NGA History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090320155429/http://www.nga.mil/StaticFiles/OCR/nga_history.pdf |date=March 20, 2009 }}, nga.mil</ref> NPIC analysts developed the information necessary to inform U.S. policymakers and influence operations during the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]]. Their analysis garnered worldwide attention when the [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy Administration]] declassified and made public a portion of the images depicting the Soviet missiles on Cuban soil; [[Adlai Stevenson II|Adlai Stevenson]] presented the images to the [[United Nations Security Council]] on October 25, 1962. | ||
===Defense Mapping Agency (DMA)=== | ===Defense Mapping Agency (DMA)=== | ||