Commander of the 51st Missile Division General-Major Igor Demyanovich Statsenko's detailed postmortem on the deployment of Soviet missiles to Cuba in mid-1962 and their removal later that year following the nuclear confrontation with the United States. The report includes an attachment titled: "Some Questions of Operational and Tactical Concealment during the Operation of the Division on the Island of Cuba."
December 18, 1962
Letter, General-Major Igor Demyanovich Statsenko, Commander of the 51st Missile Division, to the Commander-in-Chief of the Missile Forces, Moscow
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TOP SECRET
Copy Nº 1
Military Unit
54196
[handwritten:
18 December 1962
Nº 0028]
TO THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE MISSILE FORCES
Moscow
I herewith submit the materials of a report about the operations of the division on the island of Cuba.
ATTACHMENT:
1. A report of the commander of the 51st Missile Division about the operations of the division during the period from 12 July through 1 December 1962, on 23 sheets, mb Nº 135, copy Nº
2.Some questions of operational and tactical concealment during the operations of the division on the island of Cuba, on nine sheets, mb Nº 136, copy Nº 2.
3. A map of the survey and launch areas [pozitsionnye rayony], on one sheet (insert), zh/r Nº 130.
All attachments [go] only to the addressee.
Note: concerning points 2 and 3 – the attachments indicated in the report.
COMMANDER OF THE 51ST MISSILE DIVISION
GENERAL-MAJOR
/STATSENKO/
[handwritten notes to the left and below the list of attachments:
"NSh [?Chief of Staff?] Give your brief summary and conclusions; I have a conference between 10 and 12 January 1963 [[illegible signature]] 29 December 1962”
“Urgent. to Cde. A. Ya. Popov
Regarding the implementation of the resolution of the CINC of the Missile Forces. Lovkov. 3 1.1963. 1020”
“Send to the office to the Commanding General [k-mu] Sevast’yanov to file. [illegible signature] 28.1. 63”
“Urgent. To Cde. R. М. [Gandzyuk] Give a summary and conclusions [illegible surname] 9. 1. 63 [illegible signature]”
“done 9.1.63 [[illegible signature]]”
33 sheets, one map
[crossed out: incoming Nº 18, 2.1.1963
Top Secret Incoming Nº 0050 3.01.1963
Operations Directorate of the Main Staff of the Missile Forces
33 sheets plus one map
Incoming Nº 10908, 28.12. 1963
Operations Directorate of the Main Staff of the Missile Forces
334/k Incoming 5619/ss, 28.12.1962]
A cover letter from Statsenko indicating that he is submitting copies of his detailed reports on the deployment of Soviet missiles to Cuba in mid-1962 and their removal later that year.
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TsAMO fond 1, opis 14041cc, delo 1, list 192. Contributed by Sergey Radchenko and Vladislav Zubok and translated by Gary Goldberg.
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