Peter Tarnoff News Today

You can ask if youre trying to do intelligence to make better policy. On ukraine, i havent really looked hard at it. It was kind of in motion when i got there so i dont think i have a very tutored view of how well we did or didnt do it. Of course it depends a lot on what you think mr. Putins time horizon and Decision Making was like. I think well make this the last question with one wrapup question from me. Then i think youre all then, after then, invited to a reception outside, too. Joe marks f...

As 2023 comes to a close, here are ten Americans we lost this year who made a mark in foreign policy. 

Peter Tarnoff obituary

From early in his career, Mr. Tarnoff developed a reputation as the consummate confidential assistant, guiding high-profile diplomats through high-profile negotiations.

Plus Sam Altman is back at OpenAI.

A consummate man behind the scenes, he held top posts under Carter and Clinton, and in between ran the Council on Foreign Relations.

He never publicly disclosed the full details of his role in the operation, which was the basis for the 2012 Oscar-winning film.

And Joe Biden is in San Francisco, where he’ll hold a bilateral meeting with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

A US diplomat, Peter Tarnoff rose to No. 3 in the State Department in the 1990s after years as a behind-the-scenes envoy, including helping to craft a plan to smuggle six State Department employees out of Tehran during the Iran hostage crisis.

CFR’s former President Peter Tarnoff passed away on November 2, 2023, at age 86. More From Our Experts …