October 27, 1962.

• EX-COMM receives a second letter from Khrushchev proposing the public trade of Soviet missiles in Cuba for US missiles in Turkey.
•  An American U-2 spy plane accidentally strays into Russian airspace and is nearly intercepted by Soviet fighter planes. While Another U-2 is shot down over Cuba, killing the pilot.
• The CIA reports that five of the MRBM sites are now fully operational.
• Dobrynin and Robert Kennedy meet and discuss what is at stake in removing missiles from Cuba.
• Kennedy writes Khrushchev a letter stating that he will make a public statement ensuring that the US will not invade Cuba if Khrushchev removes the missiles from Cuba.
•  If they did not start to dismantle the missiles in Cuba straight away, the EX-COMM were strengthening their plans to mount an invasion. 

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