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November 20, 1962	Memorandum from the Head of the USSR Merchant Fleet to the CC CPSU Bakaev tells the CC CPSU that Soviet ships en route to Cuba are subject to overhead flights and surveillance by Americans.
November 23, 1962	Cable from Mikoyan to CC CPSU Mikoyan relays Castro’s willingness to carry out demobilization.
December 7, 1962	Memorandum from the Head of the USSR Merchant Fleet (Bakaev) to the CC CPSU Bakaev reports that all vessels carrying IL-28 planes en route to Cuba are subject to American surveillance.
December 10, 1962	Official Note from the US Embassy in Moscow to the USSR Foreign Ministry The U.S. Embassy releases a note from JFK stating that the quarantine in Cuba has been lifted on 20 November 1962.
April 26, 1979	USSR Embassy in Cuba, 'Informational Letter on Contemporary Cuban-American Relations' The Soviet Embassy in Havana gives an overview of the latest developments in US-Cuban relations. While steps towards a rapprochment have been undertaken, both sides are deadlocked on the issue of Cuba's military involvement in Africa.
November 1, 1962	Telegram from Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister V.V. Kuznetsov to USSR Foreign Ministry Kuznetsov sends the results of a meeting between Castro and U Thant, regarding UN representatives, the blockade and U Thant’s report to the UN.
October 29, 1962	Memorandum of Conversation between Soviet Foreign Ministry AA Gromyko and Carlos Olivares Sanchez Conversation between Gromyko and Sanchez where Sanchez asks the Soviet opinion on a number of issues, including the US blockade of Cuba and Castro’s recent speech.
October 29, 1962	Telegram from Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Kuznetsov to USSR Foreign Ministry Kuznetsov sends the results of a meeting with UN Sec. General U Thant.
October 30, 1962	Telegram from Soviet Ambassador to the US Dobrynin to the USSR Foreign Ministry Dobrynin discusses a meeting with Robert Kennedy, where Robert Kennedy sends back Khrushchev’s letter to John F. Kennedy, stating that a confidential and oral exchange is better regarding the subject of Turkey, rather than a confidential and written exchange.
October 30, 1962	Telegram from Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Kuznetsov and Ambassador to the UN Zorin to USSR Foreign Minstry (1) Thoughts and opinions from Kuznetsov and Zorin regarding Cuba: namely the possibility of US invasion, U Thant’s intention to talk with Castro, a UN proposal to the US for a framework to end the blockade and the make-up of a UN presence in Cuba.