Robert F. Kelley, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Robert F. Kelley

American government official

Date of Birth: 13-Feb-1894

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1976

Profession: civil servant

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

For a list of other people named Robert Kelley see Robert Kelley (disambiguation)Robert F.
Kelley (1894 February 13, Somerville, Massachusetts – 1976) was an adamantly anti-Communist official of the U.
S.
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, a MA in 1917, and continued with postgraduate work at the University of Paris (Sorbonne).
Kelley served in the U.
S.
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.