Arms Control Policy and the National Security Council
Participants

Oral History Roundtable, The NSC Project, March 23, 2000

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David L. Aaron
Staff member, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1966-72; senior staff member, National Security Council, 1972-74; deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs, 1977-81; ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 1993-97; under secretary for international trade, Department of Commerce, 1997-2000; Dorsey & Whitney, L.L.P., 2000-present.

Barry E. Carter
Staff, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1969-70; staff member, National Security Council, 1970-72; senior counsel, Select Committee on Intelligence Activities, United States Senate, 1975; acting under secretary and then deputy under secretary for export administration, Department of Commerce, and U.S. vice chair to the secretary of defense for bilateral defense conversion committees with Russia and other new independent states, 1993-96; professor of law, Georgetown University Law Center, 1979-93 and 1996-present.

Raymond L. Garthoff
Various positions, Department of State, 1961-79; in politico-military affairs responsible for coordinating all arms control matters, Department of State, 1961-67; executive officer and senior adviser to the delegation to the SALT I and ABM Treaty negotiations, Department of State, 1969-73; deputy director, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State, 1970-73; ambassador to Bulgaria, 1977-79; senior fellow, The Brookings Institution, 1980-94; guest scholar, The Brookings Institution, 1994-present.

Morton H. Halperin
Consultant, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1961-66; deputy assistant secretary for international security affairs, Department of Defense, 1966-69; staff member, National Security Council, 1969; director of policy planning, Department of State, 1998-2001.

Elisa D. Harris
Committee on International Relations, United States House of Representatives, 1980-83; guest scholar and senior research analyst, The Brookings Institution, 1988-93; director for nonproliferation and export controls, National Security Council, 1993-2001.

H. Allen Holmes
Principal deputy assistant secretary for European and Canadian Affairs, Department of State, 1979-82; ambassador to Portugal, 1982-85; assistant secretary for politico-military affairs, Department of State, 1985-89; ambassador-at-large for burdensharing, Department of State, 1989-93; assistant secretary for special operations and low-intensity conflict, Department of Defense, 1993-99; adjunct professor, Georgetown University, 2000-present.

John D. Holum
Professional staff member, Foreign Relations Committee, United States Senate, 1965-79; policy planning staff, Department of State, 1979-81; attorney, O?Melveny & Myers, 1981-93; director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1993-97; senior adviser to the president and secretary of state for arms control and international security, Department of State, 1997-2000; under secretary for arms control and international security, Department of State, 2000; Atlas Air, 2000-present.

Admiral Jonathan T. Howe
Military assistant to the deputy secretary, Department of Defense, 1982-83; director of politico-military affairs, Department of State, 1983-84; deputy chairman of the military committee, NATO, 1986-87; assistant to the chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1987-89; deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs, National Security Council, 1991-93.

Carl Kaysen
Deputy special assistant to the president for national security affairs, 1961-63; director, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, 1966-76; professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977-90; professor emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991-present.

Spurgeon M. Keeny, Jr.
Technical assistant to the president?s science advisor, 1958-69; senior staff member, National Security Council, 1963-69; assistant director for science and technology, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1969-73; deputy director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1977-81; scholar-in-residence, National Academy of Sciences, 1981-85; president and executive director, Arms Control Association, 1985-present.

Susan Koch
Various positions, Department of Defense, 1982-90; assistant director for strategic and nuclear affairs, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1990-91; director for defense policy and arms control, National Security Council, 1991-93; deputy assistant secretary for threat reduction policy, Department of Defense, 1993-present.

Thomas E. McNamara
Staff member, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1973-76; deputy assistant secretary for politico-military affairs, Department of State, 1983-86; director for counterterrorism and narcotics, National Security Council, 1986-88; U.S. ambassador to Colombia, 1988-91; senior director for international programs and African affairs, 1991-93; principal deputy assistant secretary for political-military affairs, Department of State, 1993-94; assistant secretary for political-military affairs, 1994-98; president, Americas Society and Council of the Americas, 1998-present.

Janne E. Nolan
Official, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1978-81; professional staff member, Armed Services Committee, United States Senate, 1983-87; senior fellow, The Brookings Institution, 1987-99; director of international programs, The Century Foundation, 1999-present.

Philip a. Odeen
Principal deputy assistant secretary for systems analysis, Department of Defense, 1970-71; member, National Security Council, 1971-73; vice president, Wilson Sporting Goods Company, 1973-78; managing partner and vice chairman, Coopers & Lybrand, 1978-92; president and CEO, BDM International, 1992-97; executive vice president, TRW Inc., 1998-present.
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