Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Yakovlev ya koma Kwamitin Tsakiya don yin aiki a kan akida da farfaganda, kuma ya wallafa littattafai da yawa na Amurka. Ya kare takaddama game da tarihin manufofin kasashen waje na Amurka, kuma ya sami digiri na kandidat nauk, daidai da digirin digirgir, a watan Yulin 1960. A watan Yulin 1965, Leonid Brezhnev ya nada shi mataimakin shugaban na farko na Ma'aikatar Tallafawa na Kwamitin Tsakiya na CPSU. A watan Agusta 1968, an tura Yakovlev zuwa Prague a matsayin wakilin Kwamitin Tsakiya na CPSU, kuma ya shaida shigar da tankuna cikin birni
Ka yi haƙuri. Daga baya ya yi magana game da cire Dubcek. A wannan shekarar, an sanya shi a matsayin kwamandan kungiyar da ke da alhakin tsara sabon kundin tsarin mulki. Yakovlev ya yi aiki a matsayin editan wallafe-wallafen jam'iyyar da yawa kuma ya hau matsayin babban shugaban Sashen Ideology da Propaganda na CPSU daga 1969 zuwa 1973. A cikin Janairu 1970, ya sake ziyartar Amurka kuma ya sadu da Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger, da Jane Fonda, waɗanda suka yi masa gargaɗi cewa Moscow "ba ta fahimci cikakken haɗarin sojan Amurka ba". Wannan tafiya, kuma, ya kasa canza tunaninsa mara kyau game da US.