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Operation Anadyr

Code name of the 1962 Soviet deployment of missiles and troops to Cuba.

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Dates
1962
Place
Cuba
Also known as
Anadyr

Operation Anadyr was the Soviet General Staff’s code name for the secret 1962 deployment of nuclear-capable missiles, aircraft and troops to Cuba, agreed by Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro in July 1962. Its discovery by the United States began the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The name, after a river and town in the Soviet Far North, was chosen to hide the destination.

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  • Cuba Scholarship & press 1
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  1. 1962 Operation Anadyr
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  1. Soviet Deception in the Cuban Missile Crisis, Central Intelligence Agency, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2002. Scholarship & press
    The General Staff's code name for the operation—ANADYR—was designed to mislead Soviets as well as foreigners about the destination of the equipment.
    Moscow's surreptitious dispatch of nuclear-capable SS-4 and SS-5 surface-to-surface missiles to Cuba in 1962 upset the strategic balance in an alarming way.
  2. The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962 (Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
    in July 1962 Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev reached a secret agreement with Cuban premier Fidel Castro to place Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba to deter any future invasion attempt.
  3. Radio and Television Report to the American People on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba, The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara, 22 Oct 1962. Primary record
    Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island.
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