Mikhail Gorbachev was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Mikhail Gorbachev was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Mikhail Gorbachev and Fidel Castro have a conversation in Moscow in "Year 29 of the Revolution".

General Konstantin Kurochkin was first deputy head of the Main Directorate of Personnel of the Soviet General Staff and a former head of the Soviet Military Mission in Angola.

Mikhail Gorbachev was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Mikhail Gorbachev was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Eduard Shevardnadze was the Soviet foreign minister.

Petr Demichev was a nonvoting member of the Soviet Politburo.

January 25-26, 1968. F. Castro speaks of relations with the US and Kennedy, friendship with the USSR, as well as placement of missiles, security issues as the US's imperialistic nature, while extolling the virtures of socialism, Cuba, and "The Revolution." Castro also stresses that Soviet withdrawal of weapons from Cuba is a blow to the international Communist movement.

During Mikoyan's visit to Cuba, the Cuban leadership explains its position following the Missile Crisis. Fidel Casto suggests that, while the Cuban leadership still believes that the Soviet Union is sincere in its desire to protect the Cuban Revolution, mistakes had been made during the crisis. The Soviet decision to withdraw the weapons should was based on the exchanges between the Soviet leadership and US President John F. Kennedy, not on the previous agreements between the USSR and Cuba. Castro suggests that the USSR could chose to go back on its security guarantees to Cuba in order to safeguard the peace, but that the Cubans will resist American agression nevertheless. The document only contains the Cuban responses to Mikoyan, without the Soviet leader's answers.