A journey through the Cold War : a memoir of containment and coexistence / Raymond L. Garthoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garthoff, Raymond L.

Contributor:

Brookings Institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ambassadors--United States--Biography.

Ambassadors.

Intelligence officers--United States--Biography.

Intelligence officers.

Ambassadors--Bulgaria--Biography.

Cold War.

National security--United States--History--20th century.

National security.

World politics--1945-1989.

World politics.

United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.

United States.

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.

Soviet Union.

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

Garthoff, Raymond L.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 (1977-79), Garthoff gained first-hand knowledge of the workings of a communist state and of the Soviet bloc. * In the 1980s, Garthoff wrote two major studies of American-Soviet relations. He traveled to the Soviet Union nearly a dozen times in the final decade of the cold war, and in the early 1990s he had access to the former Soviet Communist Party archives in Moscow. Garthoff#65533;'s journey through the Cold War informs the views, positions, and actions of the past. His anecdotes and observations will be of great value to those anticipating the challenges of reevaluating American post-cold war security policy.

Contents:

Preface : why this memoir?

The Cold War begins : the formative years, 1945-50

The view from a think tank : Soviet affairs expert at RAND

The thaw : observing the Soviet Union after Stalin

CIA and intelligence analysis and estimates

"Foreign affairs adviser" at the Pentagon

Intelligence excursions in the Soviet Union

The espionage game

Department of State : the Kennedy years (I)

Department of State : the Kennedy years (II)

The Cuban Missile Crisis : turning point of the Cold War

Department of State : the Johnson years

The diplomacy of East-West relations

Negotiating on strategic arms : SALT and the ABM Treaty

Developing detente in U.S.-Soviet relations

Inspecting the American conduct of foreign relations

Ambassador to Bulgaria

The decline and collapse of the detente of the 1970s

Witness to the Cold War endgame : 1980-90

Reflections on the Cold War

Epilogue : a personal reminiscence.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611770419

9781281770417

1281770418

9780815798521

0815798520

OCLC:

70728971