Kennan's Long Telegram

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The truth was most of the intelligence community just did not understand the Soviet Union.12 What did make them address the possibility that the Soviets could be hostile and led to the intelligence community to polarize on the issue was George Kennan’s “long telegram.” Kennan was an American in Moscow and understood Moscow in finite detail. However, because he projected the enormous disconnect between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, he was not popular in Washington. It was only after some of the evens mentioned above happened, was the Truman administration even willing to examine the possibility that the Soviets might be a serious problem.13 Kennan's long telegram in short prophesized what had been rather obvious since the joint occupation:

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