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Directions (Q. Nos. 114-116) Read the following passage and answer the questions, based on what is stated of implied in the passage.
Declassification of government documents has shed new light on the events comprising the Cuban missile Crisis of October 1962. Prior to the accessibility of these records, the only source of account of the Crisis for scholars and historians were the personal memoirs and narratives of the officials who served under Kennedy and Krushchev during this period. Many of the declassified documents are transcriptions and notes of meetings between members of the CIA and President Kennedy's Cabinet, as well as the President himself. The revelations in these documents have demonstrated the inadvertent inaccuracies and intended obscurities inherent in the first-person narratives of the Crisis, and has aided historians from all three countries involved in the Crisis to get a more authentic representation of what truly transpired, and for what reasons. Of perhaps the most interest to historians are declassified correspondence between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Krushchev that challenge the idea that the height of the Crisis extended only over the course of thirteen days. Indeed, these. letters indicate that the Crisis was far from resolved by Krushchev's October 28 decision to withdraw the Soviet missiles from Cuba : instead it endured far into the following month, while America slept fitfully under the illusion of peace.
Declassification of government documents has shed new light on the events comprising the Cuban missile Crisis of October 1962. Prior to the accessibility of these records, the only source of account of the Crisis for scholars and historians were the personal memoirs and narratives of the officials who served under Kennedy and Krushchev during this period. Many of the declassified documents are transcriptions and notes of meetings between members of the CIA and President Kennedy's Cabinet, as well as the President himself. The revelations in these documents have demonstrated the inadvertent inaccuracies and intended obscurities inherent in the first-person narratives of the Crisis, and has aided historians from all three countries involved in the Crisis to get a more authentic representation of what truly transpired, and for what reasons. Of perhaps the most interest to historians are declassified correspondence between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Krushchev that challenge the idea that the height of the Crisis extended only over the course of thirteen days. Indeed, these. letters indicate that the Crisis was far from resolved by Krushchev's October 28 decision to withdraw the Soviet missiles from Cuba : instead it endured far into the following month, while America slept fitfully under the illusion of peace.
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