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That night, Kennedy set forth in his message to the Soviet leader proposed steps for the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba under supervision of the United Nations, and a guarantee that the United States would not attack Cuba.
It was a risky move to ignore the second Khrushchev message. Attorney General Robert Kennedy then met secretly with Soviet Ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Dobrynin, and indicated that the United States was planning to remove the Jupiter missiles from Turkey anyway, and that it would do so soon, but this could not be part of any public resolution of the missile crisis. The next morning, October 28, Khrushchev issued a public statement that Soviet missiles would be dismantled and removed from Cuba.
The crisis was over but the naval quarantine continued until the Soviets agreed to remove their IL–28 bombers from Cuba and, on November 20, 1962, the United States ended its quarantine. U.S. Jupiter missiles were removed from Turkey in April 1963.
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https://history.state.gov/milestones...missile-crisis
So while there was no public announcement either side for the USA to dismantle the missiles in Turkey, the assurance of removal worked and the USA did remove the missiles and indeed this did assist in the deescalation of the situation.
Many of the Russian ICBM's on Cuba were already fully operational and according to Kruschev's son his father reasoned he did not need to run a blockade line as he had enough there already.
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They fell back to prevent world war
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that's not entirely accurate at all and here's why.
4 submarines sailing independently from the cargo ships, they were under the command of Captains Dubivko, Shumkov, Ketov, and Savitsky (Operation Kama) they had full authority to attack any warship that prevented them from making it to Cuba without direct authorization from Moscow, they also had on board nuclear torpedoes. so far be it from backing off they had full combat orders attack on sight if provoked.
The backing off was the result of the back office negotiations between Robert Kennedy and Anatoly Dobrynin.
Dobrynin sought the conformations that the missiles in Turkey would be removed and Cuba never again to be invaded or attacked, Anatoly Dobrynin confirmed that in 1998 for the series Cold War (Narrated by Kenneth Branagh), and also in his book if i can recall that (In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to Six Cold War Presidents) of 1995.
Assurances were given and this did indeed happen, Cuba has not since been invaded and the missiles were removed from Turkey in 1963.
It did leave us with two lessons One we needed more open direct communication with each other and two just how close we actually came.
We came as close again in 1983 during able archer.