The intelligence provided by Oleg Penkovsky during the Cuban Missile Crisis allowed President John F. Kennedy to determine that Soviet intermediate-range nuclear missiles would be fully operational in three days, an event the CIA credited as altering the course of the Cold War.

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  United States Foreign Intelligence Relationships

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