William George Hyland (January 18, 1929 – March 25, 2008) was Deputy National Security Advisor to President of the United States Gerald Ford and editor of Foreign Affairs magazine.
[1] After college, he spent 1950–53 in the 2nd Armored Division of the United States Army; during this time, he was stationed in West Germany.
He was initially assigned to the CIA's Berlin desk, and in this capacity frequently briefed Director of Central Intelligence Allen Welsh Dulles.
In 1960, he wrote a memorandum in which he predicted that Nikita Khrushchev would come up with a pretext to avoid an upcoming Paris summit with President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
With the ending of the Cold War, Hyland advocated a period of American disengagement with world affairs.