George, I'm not sure what relevence this statement has to the current thread. Perhaps I have missed something. I was in Washington during the missle crisis, and had previously spent two years in Cuba. The US and Cuba made no agreement. Krushchev, after his previous meeting with Kennedy in Vienna, had come to the conclusion that Kennedy was weak, and would not seriously oppose the Russians' moving missles into Cuba. Fidel Castro was being supported by the Reds, and was not about to bite the hand that fed him. Remember, the Cubans were supplying troops to Angola, acting as surrogates to Russia.
To Krushchev's surprise, Kennedy did act to oppose the Russian adventure, imposing the Cuban Blockade, which had a better success rate than the one imposed by Lincoln during the WTBS.* Faced with the possibility of nuclear war, Krushchev backed down, with our agreement not to place ballistic missles in Europe. The agreement was with Russia, not Cuba. Stan