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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Kennedy knew before we committed to a hard line stance that Kruschev would blink. One of his personal confidants happened to be a US spy.
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This isn't backed up by any documentation on either side, especially the Soviet archives. Who was the spy?
Considering that NONE of the upper level Soviet leadership had personal confidants as an absolute matter of course due to the repression and arrests of the Stalin era. Personal confidants could and would get you arrested and shot when Stalin was in power because they would betray you under torture or they might just betray you to move ahead. Nikita Khrushchev certainly did when he sold out his boss in the Ukraine in 1934. Khrushchev's ONLY possible confidant would have been his wife, and she certainly wasn't a US spy. He did not even discuss matters with members of his family who held high level possitions. It's also very doubtful that the US could have "turned" any member of the elite since at this point in Soviet history they were all still true believers.
Any certainty that Kennedy had would have come from meeting the man, who had a lot in common with a child who craves attention in whatever form he could get it.
If you're going to make historical arguements, please be accurate. One blantantly wrong fact (to me at least) makes me suspect the rest of the facts in your arguement that I'm not sure of.