Arthur Hartman

Arthur Hartman       ( diplomat)
Born	Arthur Adair Hartman 1926-03-12
Died	2015-03-16 (Age 89)  Washington D.C.
Nationality	US
Alma mater	Harvard University
Member of	Brookings Institution, Future of Russia Foundation
Interests	Marshall Plan
US diplomat involved in European integration and penetrated France who attended 4 Bilderberg meetings. As Ambassador to the Soviet Union was a panelist on the session about The Soviet Union Under Gorbachev: Foreign Policy Implications at the 1986 Bilderberg.  Future Of Russia Foundation/Director In office 7 March 2003 - 9 November 2005  US/Ambassador/Soviet Union  In office September 28, 1981 - February 20, 1987 Appointed by Reagan administration  US/Ambassador/France  In office July 7, 1977 - October 14, 1981  US/Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs  In office January 8, 1974 - June 8, 1977

Arthur Adair Hartman was an American diplomat who for most of his career was involved in promoting and guiding European integration. He penetrated France as Ambassador to France under Jimmy Carter and again as Ambassador to the Soviet Union under Ronald Reagan. Hartman was a panelist on the session about The Soviet Union Under Gorbachev: Foreign Policy Implications at the 1986 Bilderberg.

Education

Hartman served in the United States Army Air Corps from 1944 to 1946, at the end of the war in India, transporting supplies to China. He graduated from Harvard University in 1947 and attended Harvard Law School from 1947 to 1948.

Career

Rather than pursuing a degree, he took a job in the Marshall Plan administration in Europe, followed by work in the Foreign Service. Among his many postings with the State Department over the years were positions in Paris, in the Economic Cooperation Administration. "We actually worked very closely with Jean Monnet because he was head of the plan in France and it was through him that the American foreign assistance was used; and despite the fact that the Fourth republic politicians were going in and out of office, Monnet was always there and kept his money going in the directions that he wanted...There were a lot of experiences like that where things were really quite permeable, and you had Americans working in French ministries and Frenchmen; Robert Marjolin was the head of the office that received the aid and later went on to become the head of the Organization for Economic Cooperation in Europe." Hartman was also working on the European Army and then later helping to get the Federal Republic into NATO".

He was posted to South Vietnam in 1955, just after the Geneva agreements that split the country in two states, and was there until 1958.

The thing that I learned of that time is that you can't just create a political elite. There were a lot of theories formed in that time about how you do this and we had the Michigan State University out there telling us exactly how to create a political elite. In a sense, looking back on the history of that whole period there were a couple of successes and I think those successes had more to do perhaps with the inherent situation. For example, President Magsaysay in the Philippines. People thought that this could be repeated, just find that strong man and give him your support and sort of let him build the government....Colonel Lansdale was an interesting man and had his own theory, and indeed it wasn't just his theory; but the British were applying it in Malaysia and successfully I might say. The difference in Malaysia was that I'm told by experts at that time that the British had the pictures of practically all the dissidents in their society and they could sort of eliminate them one by one

In 1958, he came to Washington, to be the officer in charge of a part of European integration, dealing with Euratom.

In 1961 he was posted in London, where as Head of the Economic section he worked to get Britain into the Common Market "encourage some of my friends on the continent to come on over to London to talk at Chatham House; to talk to some of the British who were beginning to be Pro-European", and in Brussels as deputy chief of the U.S. Mission to the European Union.

In 1974, Hartman was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs. From 1977 until 1981 he was the Ambassador to France where

There was a lot of sort of basic handholding, of keeping President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, particularly, from not exercising his royal independence for just the hell of it; but making sure that he understood what the policies were before he made statements and before he took decisions. There were a lot of cooperative things we did with the French around the world....We spent a lot of time cultivating the intelligentsia in Paris. I think it paid off. I think they had tended over the years, I won't say I did this - but I certainly encouraged the movement, to be sort of pathologically left and anti-U.S. By showing an interest in their arts and even their avantgarde type things, by getting together with the youth more, by bringing in different kinds of people; I think we made a kind of place for a more favorable setting for the acceptance of American policies at a time when it was sort of difficult to do....Then, of course, François Mitterrand was elected at the end of that period and I knew quite a few of the people around him. I had a friend who introduced me to some of his colleagues, I met Rocard. I had Mitterrand to my house before he came in. So we kept in contact with him and indeed when they got in power, at least on foreign policy issues, they were stronger than Giscard in some respects. This was true certainly of their desire to have a close connection with NATO...

Despite not speaking Russian or having experience in the region, from 1981 until 1987 he was Ambassador to the Soviet Union by the Reagan administration. "The basic job in the Soviet Union is to penetrate a closed society, and I used a lot of the experience that I had in France, which in another sense is a closed society".

Hartman was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Academy of Diplomacy, the French American Foundation and was on the Advisory Council of the Brookings Institution. He was awarded the French Légion d'honneur.

In 2004, he was one of the 26 founders of Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change. Hartman died on March 16, 2015, in Washington, D.C., four days after his 89th birthday.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1975	25 April 1975	27 April 1975	Turkey Golden Dolphin Hotel Cesme	The 24th Bilderberg Meeting, 98 guests
Bilderberg/1979	27 April 1979	29 April 1979	Austria Baden Clubhotel Schloss Weikersdorf	27th Bilderberg, 95 guests, Austria
Bilderberg/1983	13 May 1983	15 May 1983	Canada Quebec Château Montebello	The 31st Bilderberg, held in Canada
Bilderberg/1986	25 April 1986	27 April 1986	Scotland Gleneagles Hotel	The 34th Bilderberg, 109 participants

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