Draft of a letter from President John F. Kennedy to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, 24 October 1962
This item is a draft with annotations of a letter from President John F. Kennedy to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev regarding the situation in Cuba and the build-up of Soviet missiles, later known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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OCR Page 1 of 2Dear Mr. Chairman:
I have received your letter of October twenty-third.
I think you will recognize that the step which started
the current chain of events was the action of your Govern-
ment in secretely furnishing long-range missiles to Cuba.
We will be discussing this matter in the Security Council.
In the meantime, I am concerned that we both show prudence
and do nothing to allow events to make the situation more
difficult to control than it already is. With this in mind,
I hope you will issue instructions to your ships bound for
what was
Cuba not to challenge the quarantine legally established by
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