Malcolm Toon

Malcolm Toon
United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia
In office 1969–1971
United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia
In office 1971–1975
United States Ambassador to Israel
In office 1975–1976
Preceded by	Kenneth B. Keating
Succeeded by	Samuel W. Lewis
United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union
In office 1976–1979
Preceded by	Walter John Stoessel, Jr.
Succeeded by	Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
Personal details
Born	July 4, 1916 Troy, New York
Died	February 12, 2009 (aged 92) Pinehurst, NC

Malcolm Toon (July 4, 1916 – February 12, 2009) 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 .

External links

• U.S. State Department Archives (People)
• Malcolm Toon has been interviewed as part of Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, a site at the Library of Congress.