Anatoly Dobrynin
Soviet Diplomat
Died when: 90 years 141 days (1084 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
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Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin (Russian: ?????´??? ????????? ?????´???, 16 November 1919 – 6 April 2010) was a Soviet statesman, diplomat, and politician.He was the Soviet ambassador to the United States for more than two decades, from 1962 to 1986.
He attracted notoriety among the American public during and after the Cuban Missile Crisis at the beginning of his ambassadorship, when he denied the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.
However, he did not know until days later that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev had already sent the missiles and that the Americans already had photographs of them.
Between 1968 and 1974, he was known as the Soviet end of the Kissinger–Dobrynin direct communication and negotiation link between the Nixon administration and the Soviet Politburo.
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