>> >> the kennedys always like that do things privately through the family jack always used bobby as a secret messengers to his friends and his foes. >> in washington, bobby has gone so far as to hold secret meetings with a russian spy to open a back channel between the president and kruschev. >> it was something cite extraordinary. things like that had probably never gone on before. kennedy had taken risks by having bobby set up this back channel and he was hopeful that the soviets would respond. >> bobby through the russian spy had been led to believe that kruschev was ready to talk about nuclear arms. as it turned out, he wasn't the least bit interested. >> kruschev has only one agenda -- berlin. divided by the russians in the west after world war ii, people are flooding through soviet-controlled easter er beo