ad communicated indirectly to try to resolve this matter. When the Americans found out about the missiles in Cuba being placed by the Soviets, John Fitzgerald Kennedy appoints high level American advisors to help deal with the crisis, these advisors are known as ExComm. John F. Kennedy met with one of Khrushchev's top advisors, A.A. Gromyko, in the White House. JFK had already known about the missile sites in Cuba, but he listened to Gromyko and does not reveal that he knows about the missile sites. Gromyko had lied about missiles being in Cuba, and his only answer was that, there were no missiles in Cuba, that this was what Khrushchev had said and so far as he knew. This shows the deception going on by both the United States and Soviet Union during the crisis, and also how the lack of direct communication between the leaders led to this lack of communication.If the two leaders were to discuss this issue together all facts may have been discussed, and it would not be a game of broken telephone. As well, when there was something that needed to be discussed immediately, what took place was that JFK's brother Governor Robert Kennedy would speak with the Soviet Ambassador in Washington, Anatoliy Dobrynin. They would communicate in that manner to help get the channels of communication open rapidly. This transfer of communication between JFK and Khrushchev also seemed to show that Khrushchev wanted JFK not to experience any problems, and even wanted him to get re-elected. This also shows that most of the communication done between the Americans and Soviets during the Cuban missile crisis was done usually on a second hand basis, with Dobrynin and Robert Kennedy being the two people that talked to each other the most. This was an ineffective method because, the two leaders never had the chance to speak personally and understand that they both had the same ultimate desire of ending the crisis.Another large communication gap was that the two lea...
