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Cuban Missile Crisis, Document 16

23 October 1962 / Order from Malinovskiy to Pliyev TOP SECRET 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:ContinueContinue reading “Cuban Missile Crisis, Document 16”

Cuban Missile Crisis, Document 15

22 October 1962 / Order from Malinovskiy to Pliyev TOP SECRET TROSTNIK to Comrade PAVLOV             Due to a possible assault landing in Cuba by the Americans currently conducting maneuvers in the Caribbean Sea, take immediate steps to increase combat readiness and repel the enemy through the combined forces of the Cuban Army and allContinueContinue reading “Cuban Missile Crisis, Document 15”