Gelb, Leslie H. (Personal Name)

Destler, I.M. Our own worst enemy, c1984: CIP t.p. (Leslie H. Gelb)

LC data base, 3-30-84 (hdg.: Gelb, Leslie H.)

His Anglo-American relations, 1945-1949, 1988: t.p. (Leslie Howard Gelb)

Washington post WWW site, viewed Sept. 3, 2019 (Leslie H. Gelb, who observed and influenced U.S. foreign policy for decades, as a government official, journalist and president of the Council on Foreign Relations, died August 31 [2019] in New York City. He was 82. Dr. Gelb, who was mentored by Henry Kissinger at Harvard, had a wide-ranging expertise in global policy, beginning with an early assignment in the 1960s at the Defense Department, where he edited the Pentagon Papers, a history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam that was later leaked to the press. Later in his career, Dr. Gelb worked at think tanks, the New York Times and the State Department, where he was a chief negotiator in arms reduction talks with the Soviet Union in the late 1970s. He left the Times in 1993 to become president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a high-powered think tank that has offered advice to presidents, military leaders and diplomats since the 1920s. Leslie Howard Gelb was born March 4, 1937 in New Rochelle, N.Y. At Harvard, where he studied with Kissinger, he received a master's degree in 1961 and doctorate in 1964, both in government. He served in the State Department during the administration of President Jimmy Carter, helping negotiate a strategic arms limitation treaty with the Soviet Union. Dr. Gelb retired from the Council on Foreign Relations in 2003 but maintained a connection with the organization for many years)