Cuban Missile Crisis, Document 16

23 October 1962 / Order from Malinovskiy to Pliyev

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TROSTNIK to Comrade PAVLOV

            At 0000 hours, Moscow time, on 24.10, establish two-way voice radio communications with me on the R-100 radio.  Also set around-the-clock receiving on the Volna-K receiver, radio network No 21 on 17.1 kHz.

    DIRECTOR

    23.10

Translator Note: TROSTNIK was the pseudonym used by Minister of Defense Malinovskiy, and PAVLOV was that used by Commander of the Group of Soviet Forces in Cuba Pliyev.

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