1962 27th October
Cuban Missile Crisis
Dobrynin heard Robert Kennedy privately indicate that the obsolete Jupiter missiles in Turkey would be removed after the Cuban crisis.
Cold War · October 1962 · permanent subject timeline
Jupiter Missiles in Turkey and the Secret Settlement
The hidden connection between Soviet missiles in Cuba and U.S. Jupiter missiles in Turkey. This page combines historical context with 10 matching records drawn directly from the World History Database Cuban Missile Crisis archive.
Historical context
Jupiter Missiles in Turkey and the Secret Settlement: overview and significance
What happened?
During the final negotiations, Moscow demanded removal of U.S. Jupiter missiles from Turkey. Robert Kennedy privately told Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin that the obsolete missiles would be removed, but not as part of a public bargain.
Why was it important?
The Turkey issue was a crucial but initially secret part of the settlement and remains central to understanding the reciprocal strategic concessions behind the public agreement.
World History Database records
Jupiter Missiles in Turkey and the Secret Settlement timeline
The records below are selected from the 195-record Cuban Missile Crisis archive and rendered as static HTML in chronological order.
1962
1962 27th October
Cuban Missile Crisis
Khrushchev publicly added removal of American Jupiter missiles from Turkey to the terms he sought for resolving the crisis.
1962 27th October
Cuban Missile Crisis
Ball took part in discussions over the competing Soviet proposals and the risks of linking Cuba publicly to Jupiter missiles in Turkey.
1962 27th October
Cuban Missile Crisis
Kennedy chose to answer Khrushchev's earlier, more conciliatory proposal while leaving the public demand concerning Turkey unanswered.
1962 27th October
Cuban Missile Crisis
Kennedy authorized Robert Kennedy to tell Dobrynin privately that American Jupiter missiles in Turkey would later be removed.
1962 27th October
Cuban Missile Crisis
Robert Kennedy told Dobrynin that the President could not publicly trade the Turkish Jupiter missiles for Soviet missiles in Cuba.
1962 27th October
Cuban Missile Crisis
Rusk participated in the decision to respond to Khrushchev's earlier letter rather than accept the public Turkey-for-Cuba trade.
1962 27th October
Cuban Missile Crisis
Thompson urged Kennedy to answer Khrushchev's first message and avoid becoming trapped by the later public demand concerning Turkey.
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
Khrushchev agrees to remove the missiles in exchange for a US commitment not to invade Cuba and that the US will remove American MRBMs targeting Russia from Turkey and Italy.
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
Khrushchev wants to locate missiles in Cuba as a deterrent to a US invasion and justifies the move in response to US missile deployment in Turkey.
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Historical context is editorial material; the chronology is generated from World History Database Cuban Missile Crisis records.
Last reviewed: September 2026.
FRUS: Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath · JFK Library · U.S. National Archives
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