The article says the deal between the US and the USSR was that the missiles would be removed from Cuba and the US promised not to invade. In fact, there was al

The article says the deal between the US and the USSR was that the missiles would be removed from Cuba and the US promised not to invade. In fact, there was also a private deal for a matching US missile withdrawal that was not announced at the time. From wiki: "Publicly, the Soviets would dismantle their offensive weapons in Cuba and return them to the Soviet ... in exchange for a US public declaration and agreement never to invade Cuba. Secretly, the US agreed that it would dismantle all US-built Jupiter IRBMs deployed in Turkey and Italy."