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October 27, 1962

Telegram from the Swiss Embassy in Cuba to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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 p.B.73.Cuba.O.-U’Ch. - PO

 

Original to: [Handwritten:] 155 [handwritten note illegible]

 

Copy also to: [Handwritten:] 112, 110 113, 152

 

Telegram no. 36

27. 10. 1962 2107

 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

 

B e r n e

 

Urgent Secret. – Regards your 53. I absolutely share your opinion. I will strictly keep to it. I am under the impression that Castro wants to await the reaction to the invitation [translator’s note: extended to] U-Thant to Havana, before he takes a position on the prompting to receive me.

 

Embassy of Switzerland

 

B. 2503

28.10.1962 – 0900

 

A short telegram from the Swiss Embassy in Cuba to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the impression that Castro wants to await the reaction to the invitation of U-Thant to Havana, before he takes a position on the prompting to receive Swiss officials.

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Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv, 2001 (E): 1976/17, Politische Auswirkungen nach der Rede von Präsident Kennedy vom 22. Oktober 1962. Telegram no. 36 from Embassy of Switzerland in Cuba to Swiss Foreign Ministry, 10/27/1962. Translated from German by Stephanie Popp.

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2012-09-26

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