Item COLD WAR 28/60 - Transcript of interview with Red Army officer Nikolai Bieloborodov, 1997

Typescript transcript of interview with Nikolai Bieloborodov, Red Army officer, commanded the construction of the Soviet missile sites on Cuba, 1962, relating to the reaction in the USSR to the Cuban revolution and to the socialist government of Dr Fidel Castro (Ruz), 1959-1960; the Soviet opinion of US opposition to Castro's regime in Cuba, 1959-1962; the opposition within the Soviet military to the US possession of bases around the world, 1959-1962; the Soviet deployment of SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) and SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) to Cuba, 1962; the Bay of Pigs incident, Cochinos Bay, Cuba, Apr 1961; Operation MONGOOSE, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) plan to destabilise Cuba and assassinate Dr Fidel Castro (Ruz), Prime Minister of Cuba, 1960; the covert delivery of Soviet military equipment, personnel and nuclear warheads to Cuba, 1962; the strategic impact on the USA of the Soviet deployment of missiles to Cuba, 1962; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the shooting down of a US Lockheed U2 high altitude photographic reconnaissance aircraft, Cuba, 27 Oct 1962; the Soviet control of the launch procedures of the missiles deployed to Cuba, 1962; the discovery of the Soviet deployment Missiles to Cuba through US reconnaissance photography, 16 Oct 1962; Soviet speculation on a US invasion of Cuba, 27-28 Oct 1962; the telegram from Castro to Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, requesting the possible use of nuclear weapons against the USA, 1962; Bieloborodov's opinion on how close the USA and USSR came to a nuclear confrontation during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the non-installation of the nuclear warheads on the Soviet missiles in Cuba, 1962; Bieloborodov's orders and preparations to repel the expected US invasion of Cuba, 27-28 Oct 1962; the Soviet decision to withdraw the missiles from Cuba, Oct 1962; the impact of the Cuban Missile Crisis on US-Soviet relations, 1962-1997. 33pp