A unique document that almost started a nuclear war has been declassified.

Today is the 110th anniversary of the birth of the man who prevented the clash between the USSR and the USA

The man who may have prevented World War III would have turned 110 today. Many articles have been written about intelligence officer Alexander Feklisov. But today MK publishes two documents, previously unknown to the reader, which describe the stages of preparation for war. If it were not for the Soviet intelligence officer under the pseudonym Kalistrat and the American television journalist John Scali, something irreparable could have happened.

“In October 1962, humanity, not even fully understanding the threat looming over it, stood on the brink of nuclear war,” a representative of the Foreign Intelligence Service precedes the presentation of documents. – The armed forces of the United States and the USSR were put on high alert. The threat of a full-scale American invasion loomed over Cuba, where Soviet missiles with nuclear warheads were stationed. In these troubled days, the adviser to the USSR Embassy in the USA, Fomin, in reality – a resident of Soviet foreign intelligence, Alexander Feklisov, showing miracles of professionalism, intuition and endurance, subtle calculation and justified risk, was not afraid to take on a serious share of responsibility and was able to establish direct confidential contact with the Soviet leadership with the inner circle of US President John Kennedy. Thus, the first and most important steps were taken towards relieving tension and resolving the crisis, which later went down in history as the Caribbean.

Feklisov received the operational pseudonym “Kalistrat” while he was an intern at the USSR Consulate General in New York. Before this, the boy, born into a family of simple railway workers, went through a difficult path from a mechanic repairing steam locomotives to a communications engineer. He got into intelligence by chance; he was engaged in obtaining information specifically in the field of technology. One of the most important tasks of the Center is information about the work of the United States and England on the creation of nuclear weapons. Moreover, later he said more than once: it was not intelligence, but Soviet scientists and ordinary workers who created the bomb in the USSR. It’s all about modesty. This is how his work in the SVR is described:

“The materials obtained as part of Operation Enormous significantly helped the Soviet economy and science to create a Soviet nuclear bomb in the shortest possible time and eliminate the Western monopoly on superweapons and the dictates of the globalist elites.”

But Feklisov had to take an active part in resolving the Caribbean crisis, when the world was on the verge of nuclear war. After Fidel Castro’s victory in Cuba, the Soviet Union placed missiles with nuclear warheads on the island capable of striking US territory (they would reach New York and Washington). In October 1962, an American U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft spotted the construction of missile launchers in Cuba.

“Top secret.

October 27, 1962

SEVEN-PART.

Since October 23 of this year, American planes have increasingly begun to invade Cuban airspace and fly over the island at various altitudes, including altitudes of 150-200 meters. More than 11 such flights took place on October 26.

US ships and aircraft conduct continuous surveillance of Cuban ports. Currently, naval and ground forces are being accumulated at the Guantanamo base. There are 37 ships there, including two aircraft carriers. The blockade around Cuba on the evening of October 26 began to be fully implemented and passes through the Caribbean Sea, the Leeward Islands, and the Malm Antilles.

According to Cuban friends, an invasion and bombing of military installations is inevitable…”

This document is confirmation that America could start bombing. And this would lead to a retaliatory strike from the USSR.

Here’s another one.

“SAKHAROVSKY. 27.H.

The KGB resident met with the correspondent of the television company D. SKALI, who said that in the next 48 hours there would be a landing in Cuba after the bombing of missile bases. He asked how the Soviet Union would greet this decision and what would happen to West Berlin.

The resident replied that West Berlin would be occupied, at a minimum, that all socialist countries, including China, would support the USSR. SCALI noted why CASTRO shouldn’t make a statement about his readiness to dismantle and remove the missile launchers if the US President gives a guarantee of non-aggression against Cuba. If CASTRO had made such a statement, it would have found a favorable response in US government and military circles. SCALI declined to say which of the leaders he had in mind.

That evening, SKALI asked to meet urgently.

At the meeting, he stated that he was authorized by the highest authorities in the US government to make the following proposal: The US invites CASTRO to make a public statement of its readiness to dismantle and remove long-range missiles from Cuba and never receive them, subject to the United States providing a guarantee of non-aggression against Cuba . CASTRO must agree to dismantling under the supervision of neutral observers allocated by the UN…”

Feklisov, after the legendary meeting in a restaurant with the journalist Scali, immediately conveyed Kennedy’s proposals to the Soviet ambassador. However, as it turned out, he did not send a telegram through the embassy (he referred to the fact that the Foreign Ministry did not authorize him to conduct such negotiations). And Feklisov himself sent the encryption to Moscow. With this he saved the world from war.