Thomas Porter Whitney (January 26, 1917 in Toledo, Ohio – December 2, 2007 in Manhattan, New York) was an American diplomat, author, translator, philanthropist and Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder.
Born in Toledo, Ohio, Whitney graduated from Amherst College with a B.A.
Whitney also translated Petro Grigorenko's Memoirs[2] and Yuri Orlov's Dangerous Thoughts.
[4] First published in 1962 in New York City, it recounted the nine years he spent living in the Soviet Union at the close of the Joseph Stalin regime.
[1] During World War II, Whitney worked as an analyst for the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, D.C. From 1944 to 1947, he served as an attaché and chief of the economic section at the United States embassy in Moscow.