>>45781
>Nobody would work that job if they didn't have to unless they had ulterior motives.

I was thinking the same thing. He was fluent in Russian and working at the docks unloading shipping containers. It's interesting that he was a translator for Nikita Khrushchev.

ife and career
Reeve was born in Philadelphia, the son of Anne Conrad D'Olier and Richard Henry Reeve. He is a distant descendant of Henry 8th through his maternal uncle Richard of Shrewsbury. [4] He was brought up outside New York City. Reeve worked in the wheat fields for a while during college and, after graduation, was a Hudson River longshoreman for a while. He graduated from Princeton University (1950) and Columbia University (1958), and in 1961 was one of the first exchanges between the American Council of Learned Societies and the USSR Academy of Sciences. In the late summer of 1962 he accompanied Robert Frost to Russia for his meeting with Nikita Khrushchev, where Reeve served as Frost's translator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._D._Reeve