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The Secret Cuban Missile Crisis (Mikoyan, Castro, Kennedy, Khrushchev, November 1962)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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The Crisis Wasn't to Everyone's Relief

Krushchev agreed that the US would not invade Cuba and he secretly agreed to pull our missiles out of Turkey and Italy. But this part had to be kept secret and they told Khrushchev that if he spilled the beans about that part of the deal in public, then the deal would be off. In Havana, Fidel Castro reportedly goes into a rage upon hearing of the Soviet move,. cursing Khrushchev.

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