Castro's Tempest Showed Up in San Antonio

Cuban officials told Mikoyan to ignore Castro's outburst and pretend it never happened. When he got a telegram back from Khrushchev, it was written in a superpower way that sounded threatening and offensive to Cuban sensibilities. So, Mikoyan lied about what Khrushchev had said. This made a big impression on them. In the end, the issue of inspections was resolved by going with the fallback plan proposed by the American Council of Foreign Relations head John McCloy.