Malcolm Toon

Who was Malcolm Toon?

Malcolm Toon was an American diplomat. He graduated from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University in 1938, and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Toon was the ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1969–1971, Yugoslavia from 1971–1975, Israel from 1975–1976, and the Soviet Union from 1976-1979. He participated in SALT II talks from 1977–1979 and the American-Soviet Summit in Vienna in 1979. In the 1990s, Toon co-chaired the U.S.-Russian Joint Commission on POW/MIAs with Russian general Dmitri Volkogonov. An article about Toon's briefing of the US press corps in Moscow 1977-79 was published in the US State Department's Foreign Service Journal in June 2011 and may be read at http://www.afsa.org/FSJ/0611/files/assets/downloads/publication.pdf .