Arthur C. Lundahl

They became known as EXCOMM.

And by this stage, the CIA aerial photo expert Arthur Lundahl has already spent more than a day analyzing the photos from the U-2 spy plane.

He has the photos with him on an easel.

And I've always been struck by JFK's question to Lundell, how do we know this is a medium-range missile? And Lundell replies with simple words, the length, and Kennedy doesn't seem to quite get it, and he says, the what? And Lundell replies, the length of it, yes.

The canisters were removed and sent to processing.

Then to the National Photographic Interpretation Center in Washington, D.C., run by a man named Arthur Lundahl.

Lundahl's analysts were the best in the world at reading aerial photography.

They worked through the night of the fourteenth into the fifteenth.

These were medium-range ballistic missiles.

Soviet rockets capable of carrying nuclear warheads from Cuba to targets across a substantial portion of the eastern United States in minutes.

On the morning of Tuesday, October 16, 1962, Arthur Lundahl walked into the White House with his briefing boards and his photographs.

He showed them to the National Security staff.

Kit Green was before him.

And before Kit Green was a guy by the name of Arthur Lundahl, who ran the photographic interpretation lab for the CIA, briefed the Kennedy on the Cuban Missile Crisis stuff.

He was into UFOs.

So you have these guys who are sort of the guys who have the keys to the UFO classified material.

He goes running back to the CIA.

He's all excited.

She told, teach him how to channel AFA and he goes, and this is in a, um, uh, the documentary UFOs past, present and future by Robert Emanager, uh, Arthur Lundahl, who was the first, um, uh, head of the weird desk comes and they dropped this thing into the documentary.

And, and so Bob Emmenegger says to Lundahl, he says, well, can you go on camera and tell the story? He says, I can't.