During this event, the Bucharest was let through, because it was thought not to be a threat, but the Marcula was to be boarded the following morning.
During this event, the Bucharest was let through, because it was thought not to be a threat, but the Marcula was to be boarded the following morning. ABC Correspondent John Scali was dispatched to find out through his "back- channel" source, Alexandr Fomin, about the sudden mention of the Jupiters in Turkey in a recent telegram, unbeknownst to either of them that Ambassador Dobrynin had been asked to offer the deal to Krushchev in a secret meeting with Robert Kennedy. Finally resolved on October 29, 1962, after beginning 13 days prior, for 10 points, name this Cold War confrontation involving some weapons on an island off the coast of Florida.
During this event, the Bucharest was let through, because it was thought not to be a threat, but the Marcula was to be boarded the following morning.
{Cuban Missile Crisis}