"It is a mark of the trust that Kennedy and Khrushchev had been able to build during the public week of the crisis and the early part of November that they managed a work-around whereby the Soviets permitted American reconnaissance planes to photograph departing weapons on the decks of homebound ships."

— In our words · Source: The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy (Andrew F. Cooper, Jorge Heine & Ramesh Thakur)