While in the service, he earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from
Georgetown University in 1948.[3] His doctoral dissertation, a study of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was published in 1950 as The Front is Everywhere. Upon retiring from the Army, he taught political science at the
University of Pennsylvania, where he remained as professor until 1985. He was deputy director of the
Foreign Policy Research Institute until 1969, when he became director.[3] In 1973, President
Gerald Ford appointed him
U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, a post in which he served from 1973 to 1975.[4] After his diplomatic stint, he returned to Philadelphia in 1975 to serve as president as FPRI and as editor of its journal, Orbis. In that capacity he initiated a joint project with Soviet Institute for the Study of the United States in Canada which permitted the yearly exchange of top non-governmental scholars despite strained
Cold Wardiplomatic relations.[5]
Kintner was a prolific author, writing on foreign policy, arms control, and strategic planning until his death in 1997 of cancer at the age of 81.[4] He is interred at Bryn Athyn Cemetery in
Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania.
Personal life
Kintner married Xandree Hyatt in 1940, and the couple had three daughters and a son. Widowed in 1986, he married Faith Child Halterman in 1987.
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2. Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller & Evangelism in the Age of Oil by Gerard Colby & Charlotte Dennett, Chapter 25 Building The Warfare State, p. 370 with references to William Kintner mainly on page 371.