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Raymond L. Garthoff

Raymond L. Garthoff, the author of Détente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan (revised edition, 1994), is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. From the 1950s through the 1970s, he served at the CIA and then at the State Department in the Foreign Service.


Articles by Raymond L. Garthoff