Cuban Missile Crisis, Document 19

25 October 1962 / Cable from Zorin to the TsK KPSS TOP SECRET Reproduction prohibited Copy No. 12 6116    26/X/62 Enciphered Cable [Translator’s note: Distribution for this cable is as follows: Brezhnev, Voronov, Kirilenko, Kozlov, Kosygin, Kuusinen, Mikoyan, Podgornyy, Polyanskiy, Suslov, Khrushchev, Khrushchev, Shvernik, Grishin, Rashidov, Mazurov, Mzhavanadze, Shcherbitskiy, Demichev, Ilyevich, Ponomarev, Shelepin, Gromyko, Malinovskiy,Continue reading “Cuban Missile Crisis, Document 19”

Cuban Missile Crisis, Document 17

23 October 1962 / Enciphered cable from Havana from Alekseyev on mobilizing the national militia in Cuba TOP SECRET Reproduction prohibited Copy No. 12 5962    23/X/62 Enciphered Cable [Translator’s note: Distribution for this cable is as follows: Brezhnev, Voronov, Kirilenko, Kozlov, Kuusinen, Mikoyan, Podgornyy, Polyanskiy, Suslov, Khrushchev, Khrushchev [sic], Shvernik, Grishin, Rashidov, Mazurov, Mzhavanadze, Shcherbitskiy,Continue reading “Cuban Missile Crisis, Document 17”

Cuban Missile Crisis: Document 1

The first set of documents I’ll be translating and posting over the coming weeks are from those donated to the National Security Archive by Russian historian Sergo Mikoyan dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis. There are 60 documents in all, and will be of interest to Cold War historians and those interested in Soviet, Russian,Continue reading “Cuban Missile Crisis: Document 1”