Yep.........When I was stationed in Italy in mid 70’s I tried to go on a MWR 6 day russian tour package. State Department, DOD and the KGB said hell NO !
My soviet visa application was turned down, nyet EOD.......:o)
It would have been a great way to meet some pretty Russian girls....in an apartment wired for video. Then the girls turn out to be underage, but maybe we can work something out? You know the script.
Point is, it begs belief that Talbott and Clinton visiting Moscow in 68 were not the subject of an intensive KGB blackmail/recruitment effort.
The only question would be if those two resisted, or just said, “Hell guys, all you had to do was ask, no need to run the teenyboppers on us. We’re already on your side, just tell us what you want us to do.”