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Marshall L. Brown, Jr.

Marshall L. Brown, Jr. was legal advisor to the US START I delegation, the US Open Skies delegation, the US CTBT delegation, and the US New START delegation. He served as attorney-adviser and Assistant General Counsel in the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, as Force Counsel for the Multinational Force and Observers (Sinai), and as attorney-adviser in the US State Department, from which he retired in 2010.