Cuban Missile Crisis, Document 24

27 October 1962 / Malinovskiy’s order to Pliyev to cease R-12 and R-14 missile installation work

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TROSTNIK to Comrade PAVLOV

Cease all R-12 and R-14 missile installation operations – you are unnerving the UN.

Thoroughly camouflage, work only at night.

    DIRECTOR

    27.10

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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