A consummate man behind the scenes, he held top posts under Carter and Clinton, and in between ran the Council on Foreign Relations. By Clay Risen Peter Tarnoff, a seasoned diplomat whose work behind ...
Peter Tarnoff, the principal architect behind the hostage escape plan that inspired the Oscar-winning film “Argo,” has died at 86. Tarnoff’s “Canadian Caper” scheme involved six CIA operatives posing ...
Peter Tarnoff, a US diplomat who rose to No. 3 in the State Department in the 1990s after years as a behind-the-scenes envoy, including helping to craft a plan to smuggle six State Department ...
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Peter Tarnoff, a seasoned diplomat whose work behind the scenes for presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton included establishing a secret channel to Fidel Castro and helping arrange the escape of ...
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Peter Tarnoff, a seasoned diplomat whose work behind the scenes for presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton included establishing a secret channel to Fidel Castro and helping arrange the escape of ...