By means of using civilian vessels instead of military vessels, and having their troops pose as tourists on a cruise ship, the Soviets employed deceptive means to secretly place intermediate-range missiles 90 miles off the U.S. coast of Florida. Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet premier believed that the Soviets should have the right to do the same as the Americans. After all, the U.S. had missiles in Turkey only 150 miles from the Soviet Union. Further, President Kennedy had finally announced that America was