How was the Cuban missile crisis finally resolved?
Kennedy and Khrushchev had a talk on the “hotline”. The Soviet missiles were taken back from Cuba and Americans never tried to take Cuba by force. So, everybody got happy except for Cuban refugees and some Russian kids who were made to eat Cuban cane sugar ever since (I remember from my childhood that I really hated it!!!!!! :))) For dimamuzhetsky Couple of years before the missile crisis in 1960 the CIA celebrated its success when colonel Oleg Penkovsky, KGB defector and a personal friend of marshal S. Biryuzov, commander of the Soviet Strategic Missile Forces, started pouring information on the quality and quantity of the Russian missiles. THAT was the information available for Kennedy during the crisis. The picture drawn with the help of Penkovsky was frightening. The Soviet Union had missiles in such number that could easily overcome the American defence had the missiles been launched from Cuba. Hence American compromise with non-attacking Cuba and a promise to take their own missi
On 14th Oct.’62 United States reconnaissance saw missile bases being built in Cuba. The crisis ended two weeks later on October 28, 1962, when the President of the United States John F. Kennedy and the United Nations Secretary-General U Thant reached an agreement with the Soviets to dismantle the missiles in Cuba in exchange for a no invasion agreement. Khrushchev’s request that the Jupiter and Thor missiles in Turkey be removed was ignored by the Kennedy administration and not pressed by the Soviet Union.
