There is often distrust between intelligence officers and diplomats. The following story sheds light on this tension, though the officials did not belong to the same country : In August 1962, the embassy of the federal republic of Germany in havana reported that soviet medium-range missiles had been unloaded at a Cuban harbor and that Russian soldiers were stationed in that country. The German government forwarded that information to the us government. The CIA reacted by warning the German embassy in Cuba against speculation. the Cuban missile crisis followed soon.