Aug. 30, 1962
As the heads of the Cuban delegation in Moscow, Guevara and Aragones Navarro meet with Khrushchev. They deliver Castro's amendments to the Soviet-Cuban agreement over missile deployment.
Guevara asks Khrushchev (both shown above) to declare the missile deployment publically. But Khrushchev refuses to sign the document, possibly to prevent it being leaked by the Cuban government.
Meanwhile, the Soviet cargo ship Poltava leaves Nikolaev in the Black Sea with eight R-12 missiles destined for Cuba.
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