The top speed of the suckers was mach 2.1 though.
Until you stuck the weapons pod on them.
Yeah, but what about refueling? Where would they have flown from? Anyway, I think if this were really true we'd have known about it by now from some other source than just some guy at this persons' office. Surely the Kremlin files that have been combed through on the Cuban Missile Crisis would have revealed this information.
To me, the more interesting revelation revealed in those files is that Castro was pushing Khruschev like a madman to launch a first strike on the US. Fortunately Khruschev resisted. But this is the creep many US lefties revere and say we should have normal relations with, a man who advocated the murder of millions of Americans in the 60s through a nuclear holocaust. This is the number 1 reason I cite to people when they wonder why we should still maintain an embargo on Castro and not normalize relations with that piece of filth.