Minute-by-Minute: The Cuban Missile Crisis Simulation
Posted by Ariel Warshaw
To cap off our study of Cuba, 7th grade Humanities students participated in a virtual simulation with the International Spy Museum. They traveled back in time to 1962, during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis!
Each 7th grader received their “TOP SECRET” dossiers, filled with HUMINT (human intelligence), SIGINT (signals intelligence), and OSINT (open source intelligence). The students embodied CIA All Source Analysts, and together evaluated and interpreted these sources of intelligence to counsel President Kennedy on how he should respond to the growing crisis.
By looking at declassified telegrams, memorandums, and reconnaissance plane imagery, we were able to de-escalate the tension and save the world from nuclear war! Great work, analysts!
“I thought it was pretty awesome to be able to actually become a spy for just an hour. It was fascinating to read some of the papers the CIA had access to and study them.” – Kaitlyn
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