Many sources do say the EXCOMM team knew about RFK's final Turkey concession. But he seems to have met with Dobrynin repeatedly outside the process before that. Then there's this from Foreign Policy: "Acting on JFK’s orders, Bobby Kennedy made a secret promise to withdraw… 1/2
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