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US AND USSR RELATIONS TABLE OF CONTENTS Afghanistan William W. Lehfeldt 1952-1955 Administrative Assistant, Technical Cooperation Administrative, Kabul Armin H. Meyer 1955-1957 Deputy Chief of Mission, Kabul Bruce A. Flatin 1957-1959 Political/Economic/Consular officer, Kabul William D. Brewer 1962-1965 Deputy Chief of Mission, Kabul William Piez 1963-1966 Ecnomic/Political Officer, Kabul Archer K. Blood 1965-1968 Deputy Chief of Mission, Kabul Victor Skiles 1969-1972 Deputy Director, USAID, Kabul Arnold Schifferdecker 1970-1972 Political Officer, Kabul Bruce A. Flatin 1977-1979 Political Counselor, Kabul James E. Taylor 1977-1980 Political Officer, Kabul Rudolf V. Perina 1979-1981 Political Officer, Moscow, Soviet Union Ernestine S. Heck 1980-1983 State Department; Afghanistan Desk Officer, Washington, DC Jon David Glassman 1987-1989 Chargé, Kabul Azerbaijan John P. Harrod 1975-1978 Exhibit Officer, USIS, Moscow Michael W. Cotter 1995-1998 Ambassador, Turkmenistan China 1960-1964 Economic Officer, Hong Kong Edwin Webb Martin 1945-1948 Chinese Language Training, Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) and Beijing 1948-1949 Consular Officer, Hankow 1949-1950 Economic Officer, Taipei, Taiwan 1951-1955 Political Officer, Office of Chinese Affairs, Washington, DC 1953-1954 Political Advisor to Talks with Chinese, Panmunjom, Korea 1955 Talks with Chinese, Geneva, Switzerland 1958-1961 Office of Chinese Affairs, Washington, DC 1961-1964 Political Advisor, Commander in Chief, Pacific 1967-1970 Consul General, Hong Kong Marshall Green 1956-1960 Regional Planning Advisor for the Far East, Washington, DC 1961-1963 Consul General, Hong Kong 1963-1965 Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Far East, Washington, DC 1969-1973 Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific, Washington, DC Herbert Levin 1957-1961 Chinese Language Training, Foreign Service Institute (Washington, DC) and Taiwan 1961-1964 Economic Officer, Hong Kong 1964-1967 Political Officer, Taipei, Taiwan 1967-1970 China Watcher, Tokyo, Japan 1970 Asian Affairs, National Security Council, Washington, DC Thomas L. Hughes 1963-1969 Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Washington, DC Winston Lord 1969-1973 National Security Council Staff, Washington, DC 1973-1977 Director, Policy Planning Staff, Washington, DC Cuba Clarence S. Boonstra 1943-1945 Assistant Agricultural Attaché, Havana 1955-1958 Economic Counselor, Acting Deputy Chief of Mission, Havana Michael H. Newlin 1958-1963 United Nations Affairs, Washington, DC William Lenderking 1959-1960 Rotation Officer, USIA, Havana Robert M. Sayre 1960-1961 Economic Counselor, Havana William T. Pryce 1960-1961 Special assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs, Washington, DC Jordan Thomas Rogers 1961-1963 Reports Officer, Staff Secretariat, Washington, DC Leonard Meeker 1962 Deputy Legal Advisor, Department of State, Washington, DC Thomas L. Hughes 1963-1969 Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Washington, DC John A. Bushnell 1977-1982 Deputy Assistant Secretary, ARA, Washington, DC Rudolf V. Perina 1979-1981 Political Officer, Moscow, Soviet Union Jon David Glassman 1979-1981 Deputy- US Interests Section, Swiss Embassy, Havana John J. (Jay) Taylor 1987-1990 Chief - US Interests Section, Havana Alan H. Flanigan 1990-1993 Chief - US Interests Section, Havana Czech Republic- Czechoslovakia Kenneth N. Skoug 1967-1969 Commercial/Economic Officer, Prague Peter S. Bridges 1971-1974 Chief Political/Economic Officer, Prague Leonardo M. Williams 1976-1979 Assistant Public Affairs Officer, USIS, Prague Germany nd Karl F. Mautner 1945-1958 82 Airborne, Berlin Robert R. Bowie 1945-1946 U.S. Military Officer, Germany 1950-1952 U.S. Military Officer, Germany Helmut Sonnenfeldt 1946 U.S. Army, Germany Thomas J. Dunnigan 1946-1950 Office of the U.S. Political Advisor, Berlin John W. McDonald 1947-1950 OMGUS, Berlin 1950-1952 Allied High Commission, Secretariat, Bonn David E. Mark 1949-1951 Deputy Protocol Officer, Berlin Jacques J. Reinstein 1949-1950 Acting Chief, Division of German Economic Affairs, Washington D.C. 1950-1951 Director of German Affairs, Washington D.C. 1953-1955 Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for European Affairs, Washington D.C. 1955-1958 Director of German Affairs, Washington D.C. Jonathan Dean 1949-1951 Kreis Resident Officer, Limburg 1952-1956 Political Officer, Bonn 1956-1960 East German Desk Officer, Washington DC 1968-1972 Political Counselor, Bonn Frederick H. Sacksteder 1950-1951 Kreis Residence Officer, Wuertenberg- Baden 1952 Information Officer, Dusseldorf William Lloyd Stearman 1956-1962 Press Attaché, Bonn Kempton B. Jenkins 1958-1960 Political Officer, Berlin Robert Gerald Livingston 1958-1960 Economic-Labor Officer, Hamburg 1964-1968 East German Affairs, Berlin 1968-1970 Political Officer, Bonn 1970-1971 Council on Foreign Relations: East Germany Study Group, New York Richard W. Boehm 1959 Assistant General Service Officer, Hamburg 1959-1962 Economic Officer, Berlin Paul M. Cleveland 1962-1964 Staff Assistant to Ambassador, Bonn Thomas J. Dunnigan 1962-1965 Political Officer, Bonn Martin Van Heuven 1963-1967 Legal Advisor, Berlin Bruce W. Clark 1966-1968 Rotation Officer, West Berlin Halvor C. Ekern 1967-1969 Political/Military Officer, Bonn 1969-1973 Political Advisor, Heidelberg Richard C. Barkley 1969-1971 German Affairs; Washington DC 1971-1972 Ambassador’s Aide, Bonn 1972-1974 Eastern Affairs Section, Berlin Albert L. Seligmann 1971-1975 Political Advisor, Berlin Brandon Grove 1974-1976 Deputy Chief of Mission, East Berlin, GDR Martin Van Heuven 1978-1981 Political Officer, Bonn Nelson C. Ledsky 1981-1985 Minister/Deputy Commandant, West Berlin Thomas F. Johnson 1984-1988 Consul/Branch Public Affairs Officer, Frankfurt Geoffrey W. Chapman 1985-1989 Deputy Political Counselor, Bonn J. D. Bindenagel 1994-1997 Deputy Chief of Mission, Bonn Hungary Jordan Thomas Rogers 1954-1958 Economic/Political Officer, Budapest Israel William C. Burdett 1948-1950 Vice Consul, Jerusalem Eugene H. Bird 1955 Israel-Jordan Desk, Washington, DC 1956-1958 Vice Consul, Jerusalem Michael E. Sterner 1964-1966 Bureau of Near East Affairs, Washington, DC Arthur R. Day 1972 1975 Consul General, Jerusalem Edward G. Abington 1972-1975 Political Officer, Tel Aviv Samuel W. Lewis 1977-1984 Ambassador, Israel William Andreas Brown 1979-1982 Deputy Chief of Mission, Tel Aviv Brandon Grove 1980-1983 Consul General, Jerusalem Phillip C. Wilcox, Jr. 1988-1991 Consul General, Jerusalem William Andreas Brown 1988-1992 Ambassador, Israel Korea David E. Mark 1946-1949 Political Advisor, U.S. Forces, Seoul Pakistan David D. Newsom 1947-1950 Information Officer, USIS, Karachi Maurice Williams 1963-1967 Director, USAID, Karachi Teresita C. Schaffer 1979-1980 Deputy Director, Pakistan, Afghanistan & Bangladesh, Washington, DC Ronald I. Spiers 1981-1983 Ambassador, Pakistan Phyllis E. Oakley 1989-1991 USAID Staff, Islamabad Poland Yale Richmond 1958-1961 Cultural Attaché, USIS, Warsaw Robert B. Morley 1968-1970 General Services/Economic Officer, Warsaw Roger G. Harrison 1970-1973 Consular Officer, Warsaw Romania Thomas P.H. Dunlop 1974-1976 Romania Desk Officer, Washington, DC Henry L. Clarke 1985-1989 Deputy Chief of Mission, Bucharest Soviet Union/Russia Willis C. Armstrong 1939-1941 Clerk, Moscow 1941-1943 Lend Lease Officer, Washington, DC 1945-1946 Director, Russian Ship Area, Washington, DC Davis Eugene Boster 1947-1949 Political Officer, Moscow 1949-1950 Intelligence Officer, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Washington, DC 1959-1961 Soviet Desk Officer, Bureau of European Affairs, Washington, DC 1965-1967 Political Counselor, Moscow Philip H. Valdes 1952-1953 Administrative/Political Officer, Moscow 1953-1954 Political Officer, Moscow 1955-1958 Intelligence Officer, Soviet Affairs, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Washington, DC 1961-1964 Soviet Desk Officer, Bureau of European Affairs, Washington, DC Emory C. Swank 1953-1955 Political Officer, Moscow 1955-1957 Intelligence Officer, Soviet Affairs, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Washington, DC 1967-1969 Deputy Chief of Mission, Moscow William N. Turpin 1956-1958 Consular/Economic Officer, Moscow Alexander Akalovsky 1956-1960 Interpreter, Washington, DC Harry G. Barnes, Jr. 1956-1957 Soviet Desk Officer, Washington, DC 1957-1959 Publications Procurement Officer/Cultural Exchange Officer, Moscow 1959-1962 Soviet Desk Officer, Washington, DC Wallace W. Littell 1956-1958 Distributor, America Illustrated, Moscow 1979-1983 Counselor for Public Affairs, Moscow Robert J. Martens 1956-1958 Political Officer, Moscow William Watts 1956-1958 Soviet Internal Affairs, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Washington, DC 1960-1961 Russian Language Training, Oberammergau, Germany 1961-1963 Cultural Affairs Officer, Moscow David E. Mark 1957-1959 Political & Economic Counselor, Moscow Vladimir I. Toumanoff 1958-1960 Political Officer, Moscow Gifford D. Malone 1958-1961 Intelligence Officer, Soviet Affairs, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Washington, DC 1963-1964 Russian Language Training, Oberammergau, Germany 1964-1966 Administrative Officer, Moscow 1966-1969 Soviet Desk Officer, Bureau of European Affairs, Washington, DC Walter B. Smith, II 1958-1960 U.S.-USSR Exchanges Officer, Moscow 1965-1967 Publications Procurement/Political Officer, Moscow 1969-1979 Intelligence Officer, Soviet Affairs, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Washington, DC Hans N. Tuch 1958-1961 Cultural and Press Attaché, USIS, Moscow 1961-1965
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