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Only two weeks after the agreement, the Soviets had removed the missile systems and their support equipment, loading them onto eight Soviet ships from November 5 – 9.

A month later, on December 5 and 6, the Soviet Il-28 bombers were loaded onto three Soviet ships and shipped back to Russia.

The blockade was formally ended at 6: 45 pm EDT on November 20, 1962.

Eleven months after the agreement, all American weapons were deactivated ( by September 1963 ).

An additional outcome of the negotiations was the creation of the Hotline Agreement and the Moscow – Washington hotline, a direct communications link between Moscow and Washington, D. C.