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Soviet middleman interest grows in Vietnam diplomacy
Newly released Pentagon Papers chapters show the Soviet Union shifting from initial rejection in 1965 to a more active if cautious role as a backchannel between Washington and Hanoi. Moscow sought to influence talks but avoided pressuring North Vietnam, with a low profile through 1968.
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Washington
Pentagon
Soviet Union
Hanoi
Moscow
North Vietnam
Paris
Vietnam
Nixon
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Podgorny
United States
U. S
U.S.S. R
Lyndon B. Johnson
Maxwell D. Taylor
Saigon
Johnson
Dean Rusk
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
Rusk
Dobrynin
U. S S
Foy D. Kohler
Kohler
Indochina
Southeast Asia
Nikolai
P. Firrubin
U.S
DRV
Firrubin