The Presidium members asked Troyanovsky to read the cable again, so they could fully understand its implications. The Turkey offer clearly sweetened the proposed deal even if, as Dobrynin reported, Bobby Kennedy insisted it be kept “extremely confidential.” Any remaining desire to haggle about terms and conditions drained away. After listening to the latest message from Washington, the men around the table “agreed fairly quickly that they had to accept President Kennedy’s conditions,” Troyanovsky would later recall. “In the final analysis, both we and Cuba would get what we wanted, a guarantee
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