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1992

A Crucial Estimate Relived

By: Sherman Kent

Introduction

In the spring of 1964, Studies in Intelligence published Kent’s ruminations about why the Board of National Estimates missed the Soviet deployment of offensive missiles in Cuba. The article, originally classified Secret, reveals much about the general limitations of intelligence analysis as a process, as well as why it went wrong in the fall of 1962.

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