Archives open: 60 years ago, the secret deal to end the Cuban Missile Crisis

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Here are archival documents for the super-secret deal that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis, as well as the effort made to conceal the deal:

Document 1 - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/29362-document-1-soviet-embassy-telegram-soviet-foreign-ministry-ambassador-dobrynin

Document 2 - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/29363-document-2-justice-department-memorandum-attorney-general-secretary-state-october-27

Document 3 - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/29364-document-3-kremlin-letter-nikita-khrushchev-john-f-kennedy-confirming-missile-crisis

Document 4 - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/29365-document-4-soviet-embassy-telegram-report-ambassador-dobrynin-meeting-robert-kennedy

Document 5 - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/29366-document-5-department-justice-memorandum-attorney-general-secretary-state-regarding

Document 6 - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/29367-document-6-white-house-tape-recording-kennedy-telephone-conversation-dwight-d

Document 7 - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/29368-document-7-white-house-tape-recording-kennedy-telephone-conversation-harry-truman

Document 8 - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/29369-document-8-white-house-tape-recording-kennedy-telephone-conversation-herbert-hoover

Docoment 9 - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/29370-document-9-white-house-memorandum-president-arthur-schlesinger-alsop-bartlett-story

Document 10 - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/29371-document-10-white-house-phone-message-president-kennedy-arthur-schlesinger-jr

Document 11 - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/29372-document-11-alsop-papers-letter-stewart-alsop-clay-blair-jr-march-10-1964

Document 12 - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/29373-document-12-alsop-papers-letter-stewart-alsop-clay-blair-jr-march-12-1964

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The Jupiter Missiles and the Cuban Missile Crisis Endgame

Washington, D.C., April 20, 2023 - Sixty years ago, during April 1963, the U.S. Air Force took steps to implement the final stage of the secret U.S.-Soviet deal that helped resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis with the dismantling of the Jupiter missiles deployed in Italy and Turkey. While Air Force leaders had no knowledge of the secret agreement, they had instructions from the Defense Department and the Joint Chiefs of Staff to remove the Jupiters and to render them "unidentifiable," according to the Air Force's declassified "Plan for the Withdrawal and Disposition" of the Jupiter system published here today for the first time by the National Security Archive.

The archive pictures and documents can be found here:
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cuban-missile-crisis-nuclear-vault/2023-04-20/jupiter-missiles-and-cuban-missile?