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October 28, 1962

Telegram from TROSTNIK (Soviet Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky) to PAVLOV (General Isa Pliev)

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TROSTNIK[1]   to Comrade PAVLOV[2]

 

In addition to the order not to use S-75s, you are ordered not to dispatch fighter aircraft in order to avoid collisions with US reconnaissance planes.

 

Director

 

No. 4/835

28 October 1962

18:30

 

[1] Trostnik, which means "reed" in Russian, was a code name for Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky.

[2] "Pavlov" was used as a code name for General Issa A. Pliyev, commander of Soviet forces in Cuba. 

Malinovsky orders Pliev not to dispatch fighter aircraft in order to avoid collisions with US reconnaissance planes.

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Archive of the President of the Russian Federation, Special Declassification, April 2002. Translated by Svetlana Savranskaya

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