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October 5, 1962	Handwritten Note for the Record by Colonel General S.P. Ivanov Ivanov takes notes on a conversation with Khrushchev regarding the progress of weapons en route to Cuba.
October 24, 1962	Letter from Khrushchev to John F. Kennedy Khrushchev expresses outrage at Kennedy’s establishment of quarantine in Cuba.
October 27, 1962	Robert F. Kennedy, Memorandum for Dean Rusk on Meeting with Anatoly F. Dobrynin Robert Kennedy relays the results of a meeting with Dobrynin regarding the shooting down of an American plane over Cuba and the presence of long-range missiles there.
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.
November 5, 1962	Conversation between the Cuban Leadership and Mikoyan 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.
November 11, 1962	Message from Raul Roa to the Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations Regarding Inspections Cable coding number 731 from Raul Roa to the Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations. He expresses that his government opposes inspection and would like to find a permanent solution instead.
September 30, 1961	Agreement and Lists to the Secret Agreement Between Cuba and the USSR An agreement between Cuba and the USSR on the provision of special materials to Cuba and payment for these materials. Three annexes are included. Annex I: lists war materials provided by the USSR in 1961-2. 1/3 of the value paid. Annex II: lists materials in 1962-63. 2/3 of the value paid. AnnexIII: lists materials in 1962-3. Total value paid.