On RFK's advocacy of a "Remember the Maine" pretext: See McCone memo, August 21, 1962, in "CIA Documents on the Cuban missile crisis", CIA/CSI, 1992; RFK "questioning the feasibility of provoking an action against Guantanamo which would permit us to retaliate", FRUS, Vol. X, document 383. Also see Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, pp. 192-193.