Raymond L. Garthoff


Raymond Leonard Garthoff was an American politician and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a specialist on arms control, intelligence, the Cold War, NATO, and the former Soviet Union. He was a U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria and has advised the U.S. State Department on treaties.

Life and career

In 1948, he received his B.A. from Princeton University. In 1949, he received his M.A. from Yale. From 1950 to 1957, he was a Soviet analyst for RAND Corporation. In 1951, he received his PhD from Yale. From 1957 to 1961, he was a CIA Office of National Estimates analyst. In the early 1960s, he was a special assistant in the State Department. Beginning in 1969, he was involved in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, as executive secretary of the U.S. delegation. In September 1970, he became a deputy director of the State Department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. As he later described it, he was "the regular Department representative on the verification panel working group, as it was called, the main working group for the SALT preparations."
In the 1970s, he was a senior Foreign Service inspector. From 1980 to 1994, he was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
He is the author of numerous scholarly papers, books, and has been featured in PBS documentaries.
He is well known for his disagreement with the 1976 characterization of Team B and Richard Pipes of Soviet nuclear doctrine. Garthoff died at a retirement community in Mitchellville, on December 7, 2024, at the age of 95.

Works

Articles

  • Garthoff, Raymond L.. "On Estimating and Imputing Intentions". International Security. 2 : 22–32.
  • Garthoff, R. L.. Negotiating Salt. The Wilson Quarterly, 1, 76–85.

Books

  • Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis: Revised To Include New Revelations from Soviet & Cuban Sources by Raymond Garthoff
  • The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War. Raymond L. Garthoff The Brookings Institution, 1994, 834 pp. covers 1981 to 1991
  • Détente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan by Raymond L. Garthoff covers 1970-1980
  • Deterrence and the Revolution in Soviet Military Doctrine by Raymond L. Garthoff
  • Soviet Military Policy; A Historical Analysis by Raymond L. Garthoff
  • Soviet Strategy in the Nuclear Age *Praeger Pubs. in Russian History and World Communism, No. 71 by Raymond L. Garthoff
  • Policy Versus the Law: The Reinterpretation of the Abm Treaty by Raymond L. Garthoff
  • Sino-Soviet Military Relations by Raymond L. Garthoff
  • A Journey Through the Cold War: A Memoir of Containment and Coexistence by Raymond L. Garthoff
  • Assessing the Adversary: Estimates by the Eisenhower Administration of Soviet Intentions and Capabilities by Raymond L. Garthoff
  • Intelligence Assessment and Policymaking: A Decision Point in the Kennedy Administration by Raymond L. Garthoff
  • Science and Technology in Contemporary War **Praeger Pubs. in Russian History and World Communism, No.74** by MG G.I. Pokrovsky
  • The tragedy of Hungary: A revolution won and lost by Raymond L Garthoff
  • The Soviet High Command and General Staff by Raymond L Garthoff

External sources

  • INTERVIEW WITH RAYMOND GARTHOFF-29.8.1996 accessed Dec 15, 2007
  • Гартхофф Рэймонд Л. // Иванян Э. А. Энциклопедия российско-американских отношений. XVIII-XX века. — Москва: Международные отношения, 2001. — 696 с. —.