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Secret Correspondence: JFK and Khrushchev:
The two leaders exchanged a series of secret messages as the crisis unfolded, using secure diplomatic channels to communicate directly. Messages were hand-carried, ciphered, deciphered, and translated in a process that created lag times of up to 12 hours. With the world on the brink of a nuclear cataclysm, the two leaders could not communicate in real time. |