“The Kimovsk was nearly eight hundred miles away from the Essex [24 okt. 1962]… The Yuri Gagarin was more than five hundred miles away. The “high-interest ships” had both turned back the previous day, shortly after receiving an urgent message from Moscow. The mistaken notion that the Soviet ships turned around at the last moment in a tense battle of wills between Khruschev and Kennedy has lingered for decades. … [CIA director]McCone erroneously believed that the Kimovsk “turned around when confronted by a Navy vessel” during an “attempted” intercept at 10:35 a.m. … Later on, when intelligence analysts established what really happened, the White House failed to correct the historical record. … The records of the nonconfrontation are now at the National Archives and the John F. Kennedy Library. The myth of the “eyeball to eyeball” moment persisted because historians of the missile crisis failed to use these records to plot the actual positions of Soviet ships on the morning of Wednesday, October 24.” (M. Dobbs, One Minute To Midnight [2009])