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November 1, 1962	Coded telegram from Soviet official Georgy Zhukov Zhukov relays the message that John F. Kennedy sent, via Salinger, that the President needed proof that the weapons in Cuba were dismantled.
October 4, 1962	Telegram from Soviet Ambassador to the USA Anatoly F. Dobrynin to the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dobrynin sends the results of a meeting between Rusk, himself and the Foreign Ministers of Latin American countries where they discussed questions of security, trade, and the question of the Cuban government in exile.
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.
September 7, 1962	Telegram of Soviet Ambassador to Cuba A.I. Alekseev to the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs Alekseev sends a report on the nature of anti-Cuban propaganda and actions taken by the American government in United States and Latin America
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.
October 19, 1962	Telegram from Soviet Foreign Minister A.A. Gromyko to the CC CPSU Gromyko expresses satisfaction at the current American policy of economic embargo toward Cuba and the administration’s current preoccupation in West Berlin
October 20, 1962	Telegram from Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko to the CC CPSU Gromyko relays the results of a meeting with Dean Rusk where the two discuss Cuba, issues in Latin America and American acts or aggression toward Cuba.
October 22, 1962	Telegram from Soviet Ambassador to Cuba Alekseev to the USSR MFA Alekseev’s response to the US threats toward Cuba.
October 22, 1962	Telegram from Soviet Ambassador to the USA Dobrynin to the USSR MFA Dobrynin sends the results of a meeting where Rusk invites him to his home and asks him to deliver a message to Khrushchev and text of JFK’s message to be transmitted over TASS.
October 26, 1962	Entry from the Journal of Soviet ambassador to India Benediktov, Conversation with General Secretary of the Communist Party of India, E.M. Nambudiripad Journal entry by Benediktov describing a conversation with General Secretary of the Communist Party of India, E.M. Nambudiripad. The encounter took place a day after the Soviet leadership had dramatically modified its policy on the Sino-Indian dispute (in an October 25 article in Pravda), suddenly taking a pro-China position, evidently due to the danger of global war breaking out as a result of the Cuban Missile Crisis, then peaking. While taking pains to welcome the Pravda article as helpful in correcting misunderstandings among Indian Communists, the CPI leader acknowledged that the party secretariat had concluded that "this publication in all probability will inaugurate a new period of anti-Soviet hysteria in India," pushing the Indian Government toward the West, and he pleaded with the Soviets to influence China to resolve the border dispute "without damage to the prestige of India and of Nehru himself."