Donald E. Graves

Donald E. Graves
Donald E. Graves
Born April 10, 1929(1929-04-10)
Bennington, Vermont, U.S.
Died July 2, 2008(2008-07-02) (aged 79)
United States
Occupation Analyst

Donald Edward Graves (Mr. X) (April 10, 1929 – July 2, 2008) was a State Department analyst who specialized in studying the government of the USSR.[1] As a Kremlinologist,[2] Donald Graves tracked the personal history of individual Soviet officials. These files, profiled in the 1982 Washington Post story, "The Secret Files of Mr. X"[3] consisted of hard-copy database of over 1600 index cards that held all of the information the US Government had on prominent political figures of the Soviet Union. During the 1970s and 1980s, it was a critical source of information for U.S. officials tracking the political situation of their Cold War rivals.

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Education

Donald E. Graves graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA in 1953.[4] He was awarded a master's degree from Harvard University in 1955.

Career

Donald E. Graves also edited the "Survey of the Soviet Press", for a decade, at the Central Intelligence Agency before being transferred to the US Department of State. From 1974 to 1976, Graves was at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow as first secretary and head of the internal affairs branch of the political section. While there, Graves was one of the number of State Department officials to secretly assist Norton Dodge, a Maryland college professor, to collect 20,000 pieces of art by dissident Soviet artists and smuggle them out of the Soviet Union.[5] The art, much of which is now on display at Rutgers University, and its retrieval were the subject of author John McPhee's "The Ransom of Russian Art" (1994).[6]

Birth and death

Born April 10, 1929, in Bennington, Vermont, Donald Graves grew up next door to poet Robert Frost. Graves died on July 2, 2008.

References

  1. ^ Sullivan, Patricia. "Donald Graves, 79; State Dept. Cold War Analyst", The Washington Post, Washington D.C., 18 July 2008. Retrieved on 2010-12-29.
  2. ^ "Donald Graves; Cold War Kremlinologist; 79", "The San Diego Union-Tribune", San Diego, California, 21 July 2008. Retrieved on 2010-12-29.
  3. ^ Fenyvesi, Charles. "The Secret Files of Mr. X", The Washington Post, Washington D.C., 11 July 1982. Retrieved on 2010-12-29.
  4. ^ Getty, Matt. "Mr. X's Legacy", "Dickinson College", Carlisle, PA, 1 November 2008. Retrieved on 2010-12-30.
  5. ^ "Key U.S. Kremlinologist during Cold War", "The LA Times", Los Angeles, California., 21 July 2008. Retrieved on 2010-12-29.
  6. ^ McPhee, John. The Ransom of Russian Art. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. ISBN 978-0374524500.

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