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TW3, the Death of Marilyn Monroe, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
In 1962 the Conservative government was disunited and Macmillan was tired. They began to lose by-elections. Macmillan sacked his Chancellor, Selwyn Lloyd and then seven other cabinet minister. This was known as the Night of the Long Knives and Macmillan's sobriquet, Supermac, was tarnished and many now Mac the Knife. The Americans had supported a plan to overthrow Castro in Cuba. It failed. But the US now set trade sanctions on Cuba. This pushed Cuba further towards the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union started to build medium range missile sites in Cuba. The Americans blockaded Cuba and negotiated with the Soviet Union to withdraw the missiles. This they finally did. Although the public face of the agreement was "a triumph for common sense" it was generally accepted that Khrushchev had backed down and it was from this moment that he started to lose his grip on the Soviet Politburo. 1962 was a year of enormous espionage activity in London, Washington and Moscow. Oleg Penkovsky, who had been handled by the British agent, Greville Wynne, was arrested (and later shot). Wynne was arrested and later exchanged for a Russian agent in prison in Britain. But the biggest public shock of 1962, was none of these things. It was the death of Marilyn Monroe, film star and sometime lover of President Kennedy.
 
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