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Berlin
As one of the president’s closest White House advisers, Bobby Kennedy played a crucial role in the events surrounding the Berlin Crisis of 1961. Operating mainly through a private back-channel connection to Soviet spy Georgi Bolshakov, he relayed important diplomatic communications between the American and Soviet governments. Most significantly, this con-nection helped the U.S. set up the Vienna Summit in June, 1961, and later to defuse the tank standoff in October, 1961 with the Soviets at Checkpoint Charlie, the divi">
Chapter Five: Kennedy's Attorney General (2)
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I would be remiss if I did not mention some of Robert Kennedy’s notable achievements which are detailed below.
Berlin
As one of the president’s closest White House advisers, Bobby Kennedy played a crucial role in the events surrounding the Berlin Crisis of 1961. Operating mainly through a private back-channel connection to Soviet spy Georgi Bolshakov, he relayed important diplomatic communications between the American and Soviet governments. Most significantly, this con-nection helped the U.S. set up the Vienna Summit in June, 1961, and later to defuse the tank standoff in October, 1961 with the Soviets at Checkpoint Charlie, the divi...
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