Malcolm Toon
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Malcolm Toon (born July 4, 1916) is an American diplomat. He graduated from Tufts University in 1937, and served the U.S. Navy during World War II. Toon was the ambassador to Czechoslovakia in 1969-1971, Yugoslavia in 1971-1975, Israel in 1975-1976, the Soviet Union in 1976-1979. He participated in SALT II talks from 1977 to 1979, and American-Soviet summit in Vienna in 1979. In the 1990s Toon also co-chaired U.S.-Russian Joint Commission on POW/MIAs with Russian general Dmitri Volkogonov.
[edit] External links
- U.S. State Department Archives (People)
- Malcolm Toon has been interviewed as part of Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, a site at the Library of Congress.
| Preceded by Kenneth B. Keating |
U.S. Ambassador to Israel 1975–1976 |
Succeeded by Samuel W. Lewis |
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