Cuba's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sent a Telegram to the Central Committee

Mikoyan learned that Cuba's Ministry of Foreign Affairs or MFA was planning to send a message to its UN representative. He thus sent an urgent telegram to Moscow. Mikoyan came to a personal decision that under no circumstances should Castro and his military be given control of weapons with explosive force equal to 100 Hiroshima sized bombs. Following this telegram, Moscow took action. Sir Gomiko Jan writes, Moscow asked the Cuban MFA to take measures to remove the phrase about tactical atomic weapons from the directive for the UN representative in order to prevent an information leak.