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'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.
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