Memorandum on Cuba for the President from the Attorney General, 24 October 1962
This item is a memorandum for President John F. Kennedy from Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy regarding the Attorney General's meeting with Soviet Union Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Dobrynin to discuss the situation in Cuba, later known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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October 24, 1962
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
I met with Ambassador Dobrynin last evening on the third
as you suggested
floor of the Russian Embassy and/made the following points:
I told him first that I was there on my own and not on the
instructions of the President. I said that I wanted to give him some
background on the decision of the United States Government and
wanted him to know that the duplicity of the Russians had been a
major contributing factor. When I had met with him some six weeks
before, I said, he had told me that the Russians had not placed any
long-range missiles in Cuba and had no intention to do so in the
future. He interrupted at that point and confirmed this statement
and said he specifically told me they would not put missiles in Cuba
which would be able to reach the continental United States.
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I said based on that statement which I had related to the
President plus independent intelligence information at that time,
the President had gone to the American people and assured them
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DECLARATION
that the weapons being furnished by the Communists to Cuba were
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