Graphs and Map · Diplomatic Cables of the Cuban Missile Crisis

This page includes a map, graphs, and table that help visualize the geography and frequency of the diplomatic cables sent in the time period coverd by this briefing book.

Line graph showing number of diplomatic cables sent per day. Time period of this chart includes dates of all cables from collection.

A bar graph showing the number of diplomatic cables in the briefing book during each day of the immediate crisis period.

A pie chart illustrating the percentage distribution of diplomatic cables originating from each continent.

A bar graph depicting the number of diplomatic cables sent each day from each originator. (Note the table, below, presenting same information.)

A map displaying the number of diplomatic cables originating from each country. (Note the table, below, presenting same information.)

Originator	Location	# of Cables
ACCRA	Accra, Ghana	2
ANKARA	Ankara, Turkiye	1
BAIRES	Buenos Aires, Argentina	2
BONN	Bonn, Germany	7
BRU	Brussels, Belgium	1
CAIRO	Cairo, Egypt	4
CANDELNY	Canadian Delegation in New York (United Nations), USA	5
CNBRA	Canberra, Australia	1
COLOMBO	Columbo, Sri Lanka	1
COPEN	Copenhagen, Denmark	1
DJAKARTA	Djakarta, Indonesia	1
EMBPARIS	Paris Embassy, France	16
EXTERNAL	Secretary of External Affairs, Canada	4
HAVANA	Havana, Cuba	11
LAGOS	Lagos, Nigeria	2
LDN	London, England	32
LIMA	Lima, Peru	1
LISBON	Lisbon, Portugal	1
MEXICO	Mexico City, Mexico	3
MOSCOW	Moscow, Russia	12
MVIDEO	Montevideo, Uruguay	2
NATOPARIS	NATO Paris, France	23
OSLO	Oslo, Norway	2
PERMISNY	Permanent Mission in New York (United Nations), USA	10
PORTOFSPAIN	Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	1
PRAGUE	Prague, Czech Republic	2
RIO	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	5
ROME	Rome, Italy	3
SANTODOMINGORD	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	2
STKHM	Stockholm, Sweden	2
TEHRAN	Tehran, Iran	1
WARSAW	Warsaw, Poland	1
WASHDC	Washington DC, USA	55
WLGTN	Wellington, New Zealand	2

The graphs and maps on this page are the work of Maya Sonja Smith. All graphs were created with Microsoft Excel. The map was created using a generalized world map on ArcGIS Pro (https://hub.arcgis.com/datasets/esri::world-countries-generalized/explore), with labels applied in Microsoft PowerPoint.