Cuban Missile Crisis, Document 33

30 October 1962 / Enciphered cable from Malinovskiy to Pliyev regarding onloading of R-12 missile warheads

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TROSTNIK to Comrade PAVLOV

            Load the warheads for the R-12 missiles onto the ALEKSANDROVSK, and dispatch the transport, accompanied by a ready vessel, to the Soviet Union.

            DIRECTOR

            30.10

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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