Hans Heymann Jr., who was a key contributor to the Pentagon papers, dies at 91
Hans Heymann Jr., an economist who advised three U.S. presidents on the Soviet Union and the Vietnam War — subjects he knew intimately as a key contributor to the top-secret history of the war known as the Pentagon Papers — died Jan. 10 at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington. He was 91.
He had complications from heart disease, said his daughter Kendra Sagoff.
Mr. Heymann began his career in 1950 as an analyst at the Rand Corp., a government contractor and think tank, and later served as a senior economics officer at the CIA and as a foreign policy adviser to the Ford, Carter and Reagan White Houses.
Throughout his career, he specialized in the political environments and economies of Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and the southeastern Asian countries of Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. He traveled widely for his assignments on arms transfers, civil and military aviation, and emerging technology.
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