Memorandum from Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to Secretary of State Dean Rusk, 30 October 1962
This item is a memorandum from Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to Secretary of State Dean Rusk regarding the Attorney General's conversation with Soviet Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Dobrynin about the situation in Cuba, later known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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OCR Page 1 of 5Memorandum for
The Secretary of State
October 30, 1962
He raised the point that the argume nt the Cubans were
making was that we were violating Cuban air space. I replied that
if we had not been violating Cuban air space then we would still be
believing what he and Khrushchev had said -- that there
were no long-range missiles in Cuba. In any case I said that this
matter was far more serious than the air space over Cuba and
involved peoples all over the world.
I said that he had better understand the situation and he
had better communicate that understanding to Mr. Khrushchev.
Mr. Khrushchev and he had misled us. The Soviet Union had
secretly established missile bases in Cuba while at the same time
proclaiming, privately and publicly, that this would never be done.
I said those missile bases had to go and they had to go right away.
We had to have a commitment by at least tomorrow that those
bases would be removed. This was not an ultimatum, I said, but
just a statement of fact. He should understand that if they did not
remove those bases then we would remove them. His country
might take retaliatory action but he should understand that before
this was over, while there might be dead Americans there would
also be dead Russians.
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