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November 1, 1962	Telegram from USSR Foreign Minister Gromyko to Soviet Mission in New York, for A.I. Mikoyan Gromyko instructs Mikoyan to tell U Thant, McCloy and others that the dismantled weapons will leave Cuba by the seventh or eighth and to emphasize the speedy lifting of the blockade.
November 1, 1962	Telegram from USSR Foreign Minister A.A. Gromyko to the Soviet Mission in New York Instructions to the Soviet Mission in New York on negotiations with the UN, especially on the issues of the dismantling of weapons, American bases in Turkey, lifting the blockade and the composition of the group of Security Council agents.
September 17, 1980	Letter from SPD Chairman Brandt to General Secretary of CPSU Central Committee Brezhnev Willy Brandt writes to Leonid Brezhnev about issues plaguing arms control negotiations between the US and the USSR. Particular attention is paid to the way the US Presidential election has hampered progress.
February 22, 1982	Letter by the General Secretary of the CC of the CPSU, Gorbachev, to the Chairman of the SPD, Brandt Leonid Brezhnev writes to Willy Brandt about ongoing US-Soviet arms negotiations.
March 11, 1953	Memorandum of Discussion at the 136th Meeting of the National Security Council The US National Security Council discusses the effect that Stalin’s death had on Soviet policy and on Communist Parties outside of the USSR, as well as the opportunity it provided the US to use Stalin’s death in a psychological strategy to influence the Soviets. The Council also discusses the possibility of negotiations for a settlement with the Soviets in Korea.
March 18, 1953	Draft Instructions for General Vasilii Chuikov and Vladimir Semyonov regarding GDR Control of Borders Draft instructions of the Soviet leadership to its representatives in East Germany, advising that the SED requests for East German control of the border with West Germany are "unacceptable and grossly simplistic."
April 18, 1953	Memorandum from Ivan Turginov, 'On the Western Powers’ Policy regarding the German Question' Ivan Turginov reports on the policies of the Western powers on the German Question. Special emphasis is given to the public opinion in western countries with regard to Western and Soviet policies towards occupied Germany.
October 23, 1962	Telegram from Soviet Ambassador to the USA Dobrynin to the USSR MFA Dobrynin sends a report on the general mood of Washington DC, by way of media and observation, regarding Kennedy’s establishment of a quarantine around Cuba.
October 28, 1962	Cable from Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko to USSR Ambassador to Cuba Alekseev Gromyko asks Alekseev to relay a message to Castro regarding U Thant’s possible visit.
October 25, 1962	Telegram from the Soviet representative to the United Nations, Valerian Zorin, to the USSR MFA Zorin reports on a meeting of the UN Security Council.