Maynard Wayne Glitman

Maynard Wayne Glitman (born December 8, 1933 in Chicago , Illinois , † December 13, 2010 in Shelburne , Vermont ) was an American diplomat .

Life

Maynard Wayne Glitman's parents are Reada Kutok Klaas and Benjamin Glitman. He married G. Christine Asmundsen in 1956. Glitman attended the University of Illinois and the Fletcher School and was recruited to the United States Army in 1957 . He entered the US foreign service. There he was employed in the international financial affairs department. From 1956 to 1958 Glitman was accredited as an economic attaché to the US Mission in Nassau . He worked in property surveillance from 1959 to 1961 and was accredited in the Commerce Department of the US Mission in Ottawa. From 1961 to 1965 he worked on assignments in the field of trade relations under the US Ambassador William Walton Butterworth and received further training in business administration at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1965 he was assigned to the Department for Canada in Washington. From 1965 to 1966 he worked as a clerk in the economic department on banking and advised the US government's office to the United Nations under Arthur Goldberg on economic issues . From 1967 to 1968 he dealt with the Six Day War and the question of the recognition of Taiwan . In the National Security Council he advised on the subjects of economics and Western Europe. From 1968 to 1973 was accredited at the embassy in Paris with Arthur K. Watson and was involved with Henry Kissinger in the Paris peace negotiations.

His area of ​​responsibility included tasks of NATO and overflight rights of the Lockheed U-2 . From 1973 to 1976 he advised the US government on foreign trade policy in Washington . He was promoted to Deputy Undersecretary of State and advised on price developments in the oil market . He moved to the Department of Defense of the United States and became Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense and was Deputy Chief of Mission at NATO Headquarters in Brussels from 1976 and 1977 .

From 1977 to 1981 he was in Geneva with tasks in the areas of the Red Army , North Atlantic Council , Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and long-term defense strategies, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty under Ambassador William Tapley Bennett in negotiations with the Soviet Union. From 1981 to 1984 he acted as Paul Nitze's deputy in the negotiations for the INF contract .

Glitman was involved in the forest walk compromise between Nitze and Juli Kwizinski in the summer of 1982 . The compromise in the forest walk could not be conveyed to Richard Perle . Glitman was also involved in arms control tests with the resounding titles Freeze Now , Short-Range Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (SRINF). In 1983 Glitman was in Brussels on the editing of the report of the NATO Special Consultative Group (SCG): Progress report on Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF). During Korean Airlines Flight 007 , Glitman was an executive at NATO Headquarters. Glitman negotiated Ground Launched Cruise Missile system (land-based cruise missiles ). On June 22, 1988 Ronald Reagan appointed Glitman as his ambassador to Baudouin I. Glitman submitted his letter of accreditation to the Government of Belgium on September 28, 1988 and left his post on June 17, 1991. In 1994, Glitman became a lecturer in political science at the University of Vermont .

Publications

• US Policy in Bosnia: Rethinking a Flawed Approach
• The last battle of the Cold War: an inside account of negotiating the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, 2006

Web links

• Obituary in the New York Times of 15 December 2010 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The International Who's Who 2004 p. 616
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

predecessor	Office	successor
Geoffrey Swaebe	US ambassador to Brussels from 1988 to 1991	Bruce Yellow