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November 28, 1962

Telegram from Israeli Embassy, Moscow (Tekoah), to Israeli Foreign Ministry, Jerusalem

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 Naval British attaché told me that at the height of the crisis the US was making preparations to conquer the island and by his assessment the Soviet Union would not have responded.

 

[Yosef] Tekoah [Israeli Ambassador to Moscow]

 

A British Naval attache tells the Israeli Embassy that at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US was making preparations to conquer the island of Cuba and, by his assessment, the Soviet Union would not have responded.

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File MFA 3440\20, Israel State Archive (ISA), Jerusalem, Israel; obtained and translated from Hebrew by Guy Laron.

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2012-09-25

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