Item COLD WAR 28/59 - Transcript of interview with diplomat Oleg Troyanovski, 1997

Typescript transcript of interview with Oleg Troyanovski, [Soviet Foreign Ministry], relating to the relationship between the USSR and the Cuban government of Dr Fidel Castro (Ruz), Prime Minister of Cuba, 1960-1962; the Cuban revolution and the assumption of power by Castro, Jan-Feb 1959; the reaction of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, to Castro's appeal for Soviet help to counter US aggression towards Cuba, Sep 1960; the Bay of Pigs incident, Cochinos Bay, Cuba, Apr 1961; Khrushchev's opinion of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy following the Bay of Pigs incident, 1961; the decision by the USSR to support Cuba against US aggression, [1961]; the deployment of US Chrysler Jupiter SM-78 Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) in Turkey, [1961]; the Soviet decision to deploy SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) and SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) to Cuba, 1962; discussions between Khrushchev, Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister, and Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, Soviet First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, on the possible dangers of deploying missiles to Cuba, 1962; the meeting between Gromyko and US President Kennedy, Washington DC, USA, 18 Oct 1962; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the meetings between Robert Francis Kennedy, US Attorney General, and Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the USA, Washington DC, USA, Oct 1962; the influence of Berlin on the Soviet decision to deploy missiles in Cuba, 1962; Troyanovski's fears that the Cuban Missile Crisis could result in a war between the USSR and the USA, Oct 1962; the amount of information on the Cuban Missile Crisis that was revealed to the Soviet population, Oct 1962; the two telegrams that Khrushchev sent to US President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; Soviet fears of the possibility of a US invasion of Cuba, 1962; the Soviet control of the launch procedures of the missiles deployed to Cuba, 1962; the meetings between John A Scali, Diplomatic Correspondent for ABC News, and Aleksandr Feklisov, [Soviet Diplomat], Washington DC, USA, Oct 1962; Troyanovski's opinion on how near the USSR and USA came to war during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. 31pp