ABSTRACT
Within the strategic aspects of the Cold War, Cuba became a base for Soviet land, air, and sea forces, as well as the site of a highly important electronic listening post. It was an unsinkable aircraft carrier not far off the shores of the United States, a gift to Moscow from the Castro brothers. The following article, titled “The Russian Knife at America’s Throat,” was co-written by Ralph Kinney Bennett and Mallin and was published in the Reader’s Digest in 1982.
