Robert F. Kelley
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Robert F. Kelley was an adamantly anticommunist official of the US State Department who influenced a generation of Russian specialists such as George F. Kennan and Charles Bohlen. He received a BA from Harvard in 1915 and a MA in 1917 and continued with postgraduate work at the University of Paris. Kelley served in the US Army during World War I. In 1922 he joined the State Department and, in 1926, became the head of the newly created Division of Eastern European Affairs. Kelley left the State Department in 1945 to join a private organization that eventually sponsored Radio Liberty, an anti-Soviet broadcasting service.
