I'm as sceptical as the next person, if not more so, about what our government tells us, but as far as the Cuban Missle Crisis goes, I gotta believe we were being told the truth.

There was photo surveillance of the actual missles, which, I suppose, could have been fake, but all we did was put up a blockade, make some Russian ships turn back that were supposedly carrying more, and force the Soviets to remove their missles from Cuba, in exchange for which we made a secret deal with Khruschev to remove some or all of ours from Turkey (I'm a little hazy on the details of the last part).

So what would the point have been if there were actually no missles in Cuba and the whole "crisis" was a fake? What did we accomplish?