Item NUCLEAR AGE 12/2 - Interview with Aleksandr Alekseyev, former Ambassador to Cuba, 1986

Typescript transcript of interview with Aleksandr Ivanovich Alekseyev, Soviet Counsellor, Havana, Cuba, 1960-1962, and Ambassador to Cuba, 1962-1967, relating to the Cuban revolution, 1956; Operation MONGOOSE, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) plan to destabilise Cuba and assassinate Dr Fidel Castro (Ruz), Prime Minister of Cuba, 1960; the sinking of the French cargo ship, LE GOUVRE, Havana harbour, Cuba, 4 Mar 1960; the US embargo on Cuban sugar imports, 1960; the US refusal to supply oil to Cuba, 1960; the Bay of Pigs incident, Cochinos Bay, Cuba, Apr 1961; the discovery of the Soviet deployment of SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) and SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) to Cuba through US reconnaissance photography, Oct 1962; the Cuban Missile crisis, Oct 1962; the US naval blockade of Cuba, 1962; negotiations between Castro and Soviet Deputy Prime Minister Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, 1962; the shooting down of a US Lockheed U2 high altitude photographic reconnaissance aircraft, Cuba, 1962; the effect of the Cuban Missile crisis on the leadership of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1962-1964.