'Bitter Defeat': Top CIA Official Denounced JFK's Resolution of Cuban Missile Crisis

Deputy director condemned Kennedy for not going to war.

Deputy Director of Central Intelligence Marshall Carter was likely not alone in the sentiments he shared with CIA Director John McCone on Oct. 29, 1962.

Key figures in the Cuban Missile Crisis: From left, President John F. Kennedy, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev, premier of the Soviet Union.

On the very day the Cuban Missile Crisi…