Roland Lajoie (August 11, 1936 – October 28, 2023) was a United States Army officer who served two tours in Vietnam and then in a variety of diplomatic and Cold War assignments.

After retiring from the Army, he oversaw U.S. assistance and monitoring in former Soviet states as they decommissioned nuclear forces.

His friend, Major Arthur D. Nicholson, was shot and killed by a Soviet sentry in 1985 under Lajoie's command.

His last active-duty military assignment was Associate Deputy Director for Operations/Military Affairs at the Central Intelligence Agency.

[2] After retiring from the Army in 1994 as a major general, Lajoie undertook a civilian role in the implementation of the Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991.