Cuban Missile Crisis, Document 25

27 October 1962 / Malinovskiy’s order to Pliyev to dispatch ALEKSANDROVSK

TOP SECRET

(when filled in)

To TsK KPSS, Comrade A.K. SEROV

COPY OF OUTGOING TELEGRAM No. 20109

                        TROSTNIK                

to Comrade PAVLOV

Re: No. 8/162

            ALEKSANDROVSK is to be dispatched to the Soviet Union under escort by motorship BRATSK.

            Report when she has departed.

DIRECTOR

                 No. 76644

            27 October 1962

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.

Translation © 2021 by Michael Estes and TranslatingHistory.org

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