Raymond Leonard "Ray" Garthoff (born March 26, 1929) is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a specialist on arms control, intelligence, the Cold War, NATO, and the former Soviet Union.
Beginning in 1969, he was involved in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, as executive secretary of the U.S.
[1] In September 1970, he became a deputy director of the State Department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs.
[2][3] He is the author of numerous scholarly papers, books, and has been featured in PBS documentaries.
He is well known for his disagreement with Team B's and Richard Pipes's 1976 characterization of Soviet nuclear doctrine.