Record of Conversation Between N S Khrushchev and Fidel Castro May 4 1963 While vacationing in Zavidovo Chairman of the Council of Ministers N S Khrushchev had a conversation with Frist Secretary of the National Leadership of the United Socialist Revolutionary Party and Prime Minister of the Revolutionary government of Cuba Fidel Castro Ruz in the evening of May 4 N S Khrushchev offered Fidel Castro to look through the latest documents which the Soviet and the American sides exchanged through the confidential channels on various issues including the Cuban issue F Castro thanked N S Khrushchev for this offer and agreed to look at those documents with great pleasure During May 4 the translations of those documents were read to him including N S Khrushchev’s memorandum to the Presidium of the CC about the state of the Soviet-American relations at the present time as well as records of conversations between Dobrynin and Rusk and records of conversations between Soviet representatives with representatives of the American press Ambassador of the USSR to Cuba A I Alexeyev was present at the conversation Conversation was translated by 3d Secretary of the USSR Embassy in Mexico N S Leonov Source Russian State Archive of Contemporary History RGANI FONd 52 opis 1 delo 57 Translated by Svetlana Savranskaya for the National Security Archive