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...plumber, his mother an usher in a Moscow theater. He was an aircraft-design engineer in 1944, when Stalin ordered Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov to start recruiting technicians rather than intellectuals and independent thinkers to staff the U.S.S.R.'s postwar diplomatic corps. From such implausible roots, Anatoly Dobrynin rose to become ambassador to the U.S. for five Soviet leaders and interlocutor for six U.S. Presidents--Kennedy to Reagan...
From 1962, when Nikita Khrushchev sent him to Washington, until 1986, when Mikhail Gorbachev brought him home, the warm, wary and perceptive Dobrynin saw the cold war from an extraordinary vantage point: as the main conduit for a quarter-century of Kremlin-White House secret negotiations. As dubious exposes and skimpy memoirs poured out of the Soviet Union following its 1991 collapse, Dobrynin's remained the great untold story. Now the diplomat who had such confidence in his memory that he never took notes until meetings were over has put it all down in writing and delivered...
President John F. Kennedy's Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy were among the Americans present. The Soviets were represented by the likes of former Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and onetime Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. The Cubans were led by Politburo member Jorge Risquet. The atmosphere, said a participant, was one of "remarkable bonhomie." However, the meeting revealed that all three parties acted out of basic misperceptions during the crisis. Among them...
...will be attended by some 4,000 people, including ranking officials from all branches of Government, plus diplomats and clergy, who will join in a 90-minute round of prayer and testimonials at a Washington hotel. (At one such session in the Reagan era, former Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin surprised fellow guests by joining them in a hearty rendition of the hymn How Great Thou...
Alexander Yakovlev, 64. Ambassador to Canada for ten years, Yakovlev has been a key architect of the Gorbachev reform program. He was given a reorganized version of Dobrynin's Central Committee job dealing with foreign affairs. Promoted...