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November 1962

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

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From TROSTNIK[1] to Comrade PAVLOV[2]

 

Weapons should be transferred to the Cubans after the training on the following timetable:

MSP – 3 to 4 months,

Air Defense and Naval – 8 to 10 months,

Air force – 8 to 10 months,

Missiles “Luna” and FKR with conventional loads will be probably left in Cuba.

 

Send your considerations.

 

Director

[early November 1962]

 

 

Malinovsky sends Pliev a timeline for transfer of weapons to the Cubans.

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

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