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Diplomats -- Canada -- Biography.
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Canada -- Foreign relations -- 1945- -- Biography.
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Warden, Bill.
Warden, Bill.
Diplomats -- Canada -- Biography.
Diplomatic and consular service, Canadian -- Biography.
Intelligence officers -- Canada -- Biography.
Cold War -- Biography.
Canada -- Foreign relations -- 1945- -- Biography.
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Diplomat, dissident, spook : a Canadian diplomat's chronicles through the Cold War and beyond / Bill Warden ; edited by Lisa Warden.
by
Warden, Bill.
Tellwell Talent, 2017.
Call #:
327.71 W265d
Subjects
Warden, Bill.
Diplomats
--
Canada
--
Biography
.
Diplomatic and consular service, Canadian
--
Biography
.
Intelligence officers
--
Canada
--
Biography
.
Cold War
--
Biography
.
Canada
--
Foreign
relations
--
1945-
--
Biography
.
ISBN:
9781773029115 (pbk.)
Description:
xxix, 380 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
For his first posting, a fresh-faced Canadian diplomat and his young family are dispatched straight into the belly of the beast: the USSR in full-on Cold War mode. Next stop, Havana - with an additional assignment: clandestine intelligence gathering for the CIA. The late cold warrior-diplomat Bill Warden chronicles his years in the realm of western diplomacy during a period when the world stood at, and pulled back from, the brink of nuclear annihilation. He gets successively disabused of his ideological certainties. The memoir ranges from espionage - central in Berlin in the late 1950s, to the "Evil Empire" in Moscow, to Cuba, where the author worked gathering intelligence for the CIA in a top-secret program of cooperation between the US and
Canada
following the Cuban Missile Crisis. Through subsequent ambassadorial postings to Hong Kong and Pakistan, and missions to Tehran, where he negotiated for the resumption of diplomatic
relations
with the revolutionary regime in Iran following the highly publicized "Canadian Caper" and secured the release of a Canadian hostage, Warden witnesses with some dismay as
Canada
's
Foreign
Service shifts its focus to, as he puts it, selling widgets, away from what he saw as pivotal political concerns. By the time Warden serves as High Commissioner to India during the turbulence of Indira Gandhi's assassination, the ensuing anti-Sikh pogroms and the Air India passenger jet bombing in 1985 that killed 329 people, the Cold War has all but fizzled, and he's disenchanted with the workings of Canadian diplomacy. He leaves the diplomatic corps for other pursuits, including driving buses and observing elections in dodgy Latin American locales. Bill Warden retired to Victoria, B.C., where he passed away in 2011. Mikhail Gorbachev has written the foreword to the memoirs.
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Memoirs.
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Warden, Lisa.
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