our purpose has been and is to help cuba, and no one can challenge the 
humanity of our motives aimed at allowing cuba to live peacefully and develop 
as its people desire. 
you want to relieve your country from danger and this is understandable. 
however, cuba also wants this. 
all countries want to relieve themselves from danger. 
but how can we, the soviet union and our government, assess your actions 
which, in effect, mean that you have surrounded the soviet union with military 
bases, surrounded our allies with military bases, set up military bases 
literally around our country, and stationed your rocket weapons at them? 
this is no secret. 
high-placed american officials demonstratively declare this. 
