FORMER CIA AGENT HOLDS UP RECENTLY DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS ABOUT MISSILE CRISIS IN CUBA, 2002-10-13 (photo)

Dino Brugioni, a former agent with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, holds up recently declassified documents pertaining to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, inside a bunker housing where Russian missiles were kept, near San Cristobal, some 80 miles (120km) west of Havana, October 13, 2002. The world was much closer to a nuclear holocaust during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis than governments new, former U.S. and Russian officials and military officers said at a conference in Cuba marking the 40th anniversary of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War. REUTERS/Rafael Perez RP/GN