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October 15, 1962	Cable from USSR Ambassador to the USA A.F. Dobrynin to Soviet Foreign Ministry Dobrynin reports confidential intelligence of "piratic raids by the so-called 'Alpha 66' group on the Cuban coast and on several vessels near Cuba are being carried out not from a base on the American mainland, but rather directly from the sea, from American landing ships carrying the corresponding cutters."
October 23, 1962	Telegram from Soviet Ambassador to Cuba A.I. Alekseev to USSR Foreign Ministry Alekseev transmits that Cuba’s army has mobilized and the subsequent affect on Cuba’s economy because of Kennedy’s recent speech. Cuba waits for the Soviet Union’s opinion on the recent events.
October 28, 1962	Memorandum from S. P. Ivanov and R. Malinovsky to N. S. Khrushchev Malinovsky and S.P. Ivanov report the shooting down of an American aircraft, which had taken surveillance pictures of the disposition of troops on Cuba.
October 18, 1962	Telegram from Soviet Ambassador to the USA Dobrynin to the USSR MFA Dobrynin sends statements issued by Kennedy, Rusk, Taylor and Martin in a closed briefing for American media where they discussed the gravity of the Cuban issue.