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In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidents.(Brief Article)

Economist (US), The, April, 1996

THE pickings in Anatoly Dobrynin's fascinating book could not be less scant. As a newly trained aircraft engineer, he was spotted by party talent-scouts and earmarked for diplomacy. That was in 1944 and Joseph Stalin was at the apogee of power. In March 1962, at the age of 43, Mr Dobrynin presented his credentials to President Kennedy as Soviet ambassador. Soon he was helping to open a "confidential channel" between American and Soviet leaders, so playing a part in averting war between the two nuclear superpowers over Cuba.

In Washington Mr Dobrynin served his country with distinction during the presidencies of Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon and those of Ford, Carter and Reagan. As striking was the list of general or first secretaries of the Soviet Communist Party who...

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