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The Secret Cuban Missile Crisis (Mikoyan, Castro, Kennedy, Khrushchev, November 1962)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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Are We Returning to the First Day Comrade Fidel?

Mikoyan was forced to convince Castro that despite Moscow's best intentions, it would be in breach of an unpublished Soviet law. In other words, Mikoyan decided to lie to Castro. Here's what he said when Castro asked if the Soviet Union transfers nuclear weapons to other countries.

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