High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 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. He received a B. A. from Harvard in 1915, a Master of Arts in 1917, and continued with postgraduate work at the University of Paris (Sorbonne). Kelley served in the U. S. Army during World War I and in the years immediately after the war. 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.