Which statement about the cuban missile crisis is true? a. the soviets agreed to remove missiles from cuba and the u. s. agreed to remove missiles from turkey. b. the u. s. government backed down and allowed the soviets to place missiles in cuba. c. khrushchev agreed to allow american forces to occupy cuba and remove castro from power. d. kennedy and khrushchev secretly agreed to divide the island of cuba between the u. s. and the soviet union.