US Jupiter missiles quietly leave Turkey
1963 · Event
Kennedy's side of the secret Cuban Missile Crisis bargain is honoured: the last American Jupiter missile in Turkey is dismantled by late April, replaced by Polaris submarines offshore. Publicly, the two halves of the deal are never connected.
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