Monroe Didn't Forsee the Frogman

Nikita Khrushchev here is depicted as a Frogman, which was a WWII term for someone who is trained in scuba diving in a military or combat capacity. A “Monroe Doctrine” flag is seen flying above a ship in the background. This refers to the fact that President Kennedy was using the Monroe Doctrine as a justification for action in Cuba at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Russia was very secretive about its operations in Cuba; so indeed Monroe couldn’t have foreseen this sneaky frogman coming.

     Dick Couch. "The Forerunners: World War II: Frogmen." Naval History 26, no. 1 (February 2012):20-21. Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost.

     Robert F. Kennedy. Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. New York, N.Y. 1999.