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Cuban Missile Crisis, Document 33

30 October 1962 / Enciphered cable from Malinovskiy to Pliyev regarding onloading of R-12 missile warheads TOP SECRET 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 theContinue reading “Cuban Missile Crisis, Document 33”

Cuban Missile Crisis, Document 32

29 October 1962 / Enciphered cable from Havana, from Alekseyev on his conversation with Fidel Castro TOP SECRET Reproduction prohibited Copy No. 12 6216/sh           30/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,Continue reading “Cuban Missile Crisis, Document 32”