---
aliases:
- Norman Antokol
- Phillip Norman Antokol
- N. Antokol
- Antokol
category: Intelligence & Government
created: 2026-10-08
relations:
- fn: 1
  role: foreign service officer
  type: employed_by
  with: '[[State Department]]'
- end: 1985-01
  fn: 1
  role: International Relations Officer for Europe and Africa, office symbol M/CT
  start: 1984-01
  type: employed_by
  with: '[[Office for Combatting Terrorism]]'
- fn: 3
  role: Professional Studies, later deputy coordinator of the Political Training Division
  start: 1988-10
  type: employed_by
  with: '[[Foreign Service Institute]]'
summary: State Department officer listed in the counterterrorism office in 1984 and
  1985, later deputy coordinator of the Foreign Service Institute Political Training
  Division, co-author with Mayer Nudell of two books.
tags:
- Person
- NormanAntokol
- Counterterrorism
- HostageNegotiation
- ForeignService
- MayerNudell
updated: 2026-10-08
---

Norman Antokol is an officer of the [State Department](/organizations/state-department/) who was listed in the department's counterterrorism office in 1984 and 1985, transferred from Barbados to the Foreign Service Institute in 1988, and co-wrote two books with [Mayer Nudell](/people/mayer-nudell/).

### State Department career

The department's telephone directory for January 1984 lists "Norman Antokol" as International Relations Officer for Europe and Africa under the Assistant Coordinator for Security Policies and Programs, with Mayer Nudell listed for Near East and South Asia. The January 1985 directory lists "Antokol; Norman" under the office symbol M/CT.[^1] The department's magazine State reports that Antokol, Nudell, John Coffman and Deven McConnell took part in a hostage negotiation seminar taught by an FBI Academy instructor on November 9 to 11.[^2]

The October 1988 issue of State lists, under transfers, "Antokol, Phillip Norman, Barbados to Foreign Service Institute, Professional Studies." A notice in the same volume on the institute's Political Training Division names Norman Antokol as its deputy coordinator and as co-author of a book titled Emergency Planning and Crisis Management, and reports a talk by Antokol on "Terrorism and the Media" to a class on terrorism in late September.[^3] A 1990 notice in State calls him "Political training deputy director."[^4]

### Writings

He is first author of No One a Neutral: Political Hostage-Taking in the Modern World (Medina, Ohio: Alpha Publications of Ohio, 1990), and second author, after Nudell, of The Handbook for Effective Emergency and Crisis Management (Lexington Books, 1988).[^5] With Nudell he wrote "Negotiating for Life," Security Management 34 (July 1990), pages 57 to 64 and 66.[^6]

[^1]: U.S. Department of State, Telephone Directory, January 1984, scan pages 40 and 88, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435067603464; Telephone Directory, January 1985, scan page 11, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435067603514.
[^2]: U.S. Department of State, State, no. 263-273 (1984), "Office for Combatting Terrorism" column, p. 66, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435066730094 (scan page 70).
[^3]: U.S. Department of State, State, no. 307-317 (1988), October 1988 issue, "Transfers," p. 41, and Political Training Division notice, p. 47, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015076208282 (scan pages 559 and 707). The transfer list gives the name as Phillip Norman Antokol; the notice names Norman Antokol; records found do not state in so many words that they are the same person.
[^4]: U.S. Department of State, State, no. 329-339 (1990), book notice, scan page 28, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435066730151.
[^5]: Catalog records (LCCN 87045997; archive.org items handbookforeffec0000nude and nooneneutralpoli0000anto_w1w9).
[^6]: Stephen W. Di Rito, "Response to Hostage Taking for Medium and Small Size Law Enforcement Agencies" (AFIT/CI thesis, Fall 1992), bibliography, Defense Technical Information Center accession ADA265597, https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA265597.pdf.


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