WILLIAM G. HYLAND PAPERS, (1960-1968) 1970-1992

William G. Hyland, a noted expert on U.S.-Soviet relations, had a distinguished career in government service, which began during the 1950s as an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency and culminated with his tenure as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs during the Ford administration. In between, Hyland served on the National Security Council staff and as Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research.

After leaving government service in 1977, William G. Hyland began working for several influential policy institutes, most notably the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Council for Foreign Relations. These jobs directly lead to his editorship of Foreign Affairs (1984-93), where Mr. Hyland played a part in furthering the journal's role in framing the establishment's discussion of Cold War strategy and guided its coverage of the fall of the Soviet Union.

Included within this collection are drafts of books and articles by Hyland and others, editorials, speeches, transcripts, and notes. Additionally, correspondence relating to articles submitted to Hyland for publication in Foreign Affairs. Of particular interest might be the articles with a large number of handwritten notes, edits, and marginalia. Topics under discussion include Soviet politics, U.S. Soviet summit meetings, trip notes from Soviet Union, SALT, Star Wars, German reunification, Persian Gulf crisis, and Seymour Hersh's The Price of Power. Mr. Hyland also wrote a half dozen books on international relations and popular music. The collection contains a working draft of The Cold War is Over (1990) and The Song is Ended (1998). Material relating to the journal's routine operations include correspondence, phone messages, writing style manual, and meeting notes.

Although the William G. Hyland Papers primarily document his post-government career, as a whole the collection is rather selective and fragmentary. A small portion of the papers document his career in public service including Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research and White House Deputy National Security Advisor. But this material reveals little about his involvement in policy decisions made by the Nixon and Ford administrations. Included within are articles, notes, government publications, and news publications.

The printed material consists of government reports and non-U.S. news translated and disseminated by the U.S. government. Included within are the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) news summaries, Current Digest of the Soviet Press, Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty (RFE-RL), and News and Views from the USSR are quite plenty.

Related Materials (March 2016)
Related materials are located in a number of other collections. For example, the National Security Adviser's files and its various sub-collections: Kissinger Reports on USSR, China, and Middle East; Kissinger-Scowcroft West Wing Office Files; Memoranda of Conversations; Trip Briefing Books and Cables; Remote Archive Capture (RAC) program. The Arthur Burns Papers, especially material from his service as the U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, 1981-1985.