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In this memoir, Ambassador Ray Garthoff paints a dynamic diplomatic history of the cold war, tracing the life of the conflict from the vantage points of an observant insider. His intellectually formative years coincided with the earliest days of the cold war, and during his forty-year career, Garthoff participated in some of the most important policymaking of the twentieth century: In the late 1950s he carried out pioneering research on Soviet military affairs at the Rand Corporation. During his four-year tenure at the CIA (1957-61), in addition to drafting national intellingence estimates, Garthoff made trips to the Soviet Union with Vice President Richard Nixon and as an interpreter for a delegation from the Atomic Energy Commission. As a special assistant in the State Department, Garthoff worked with Secretary Dean Rusk., and he was directly involved in the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. Later he served as executive officer and senior State Department adviser for the strategic arms limitation talks (SALT) delegation. In the 1970s he served as a senior Foreign Service inspector, leading missions to a number of countries around the globe. As U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria (1

Who reads A Journey Through the Cold War : A Memoir of Containment and Coexistence?

Author

Raymond L Garthoff; Brookings Institution

Publisher

Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781281770417

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Political Science, History