Silent Missions

Walters, Vernon A.

ISBN 10: 0385135009 / ISBN 13: 9780385135009

Published by New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1978, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1978

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655 pages with several photos. Autobiography of General Vernon Walters - Presidential troubleshooter in the 1950s-1960s. Light staining to dust jacket and wear to dj. Overall clean copy. Seller Inventory # 001439

Bibliographic Details

Title: Silent Missions

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1978, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Publication Date: 1978

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good(-)

Edition: First Edition

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Synopsis:

Vernon A. Walters was a United States Army officer and a diplomat. Most notably, he served from 1972 to 1976 as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, from 1985 to 1989 as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations and from 1989 to 1991 as Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany during the decisive phase of German Reunification. Walters rose to the rank of lieutenant general in the U.S. Army and is a member of the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame.

Walters served as an aide and interpreter for several Presidents. He was at President Harry S. Truman's side as an interpreter in key meetings with America's Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Latin American allies. His language skills helped him win Truman's confidence, and he accompanied the President to the Pacific in the early 1950s, serving as a key aide in Truman's unsuccessful effort to reach a reconciliation with an insubordinate General Douglas MacArthur, the Commander of United Nations forces in Korea.

In Europe in the 1950s, Walters served President Dwight Eisenhower and other top US officials as a translator and aide at a series of NATO summit conferences. He also worked in Paris at Marshall Plan headquarters and helped set up the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe.

He was with then-Vice President Nixon in 1958 when an anti-American crowd stoned their car in Caracas, Venezuela. Walters suffered facial cuts from flying glass. The Vice President avoided injury.

Walters himself reflected on those challenging days in his 1978 autobiography, 'Silent Missions'.