#Diplomat

People (16)

• Ardeshir Zahedi Iranian ambassador to the U.S. who served as a key intelligence source for Israel, reporting on American Middle East policy to the Shah.
• Charles Lucet Charles Lucet was a senior French foreign ministry official who served as deputy ambassador in Washington D.C.
• Ephraim Evron Ephraim Evron, also known as Effy Evron, was an Israeli diplomat who served as the Israeli ambassador to Washington D.C..
• Faissal Ghows In December 1980, Ghows delivered $56 million to Ari Ben-Menashe in Guatemala.
• George Kennan George Kennan was the U.S. diplomat and historian who originated the 'containment' doctrine for confronting Soviet power, articulated in his 1946 Long Telegram from Moscow and his 1947 X Article in Foreign Affairs, and spent his subsequent decades watching the doctrine distorted into forms he had never intended and repeatedly arguing against its militarized implementation.
• Gerald R. Ford In late 1976, at the end of his tenure as President, Henry A.
• Hermann F. Eilts Hermann F. Eilts (1922-2006) was the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt during the Yom Kippur War and Kissinger shuttle diplomacy era, who later disclosed that Kissinger had withheld information about Israeli nuclear arming until a final meeting in late 1976.
• Jefferson Caffery Jefferson Caffery served as U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, Brazil, France, and Egypt across a 29-year chief-of-mission career, mediating the Batista-Mendieta transition in 1934, coordinating the wartime Corridor of Victory with Vargas, pressuring France to expel its Communist ministers in 1947, and brokering the Anglo-Egyptian Suez negotiations of 1954.
• Lincoln Gordon Lincoln Gordon served as U.S. Ambassador to Brazil from 1961 to 1966 and was the central American official in coordinating the 1964 military coup that overthrew President Joao Goulart, later becoming assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs.
• Mordecai Gur Mordecai Gur was the Israeli military attaché.
• Peter W. Rodman Longtime assistant to Henry Kissinger present during sensitive meetings with Israeli officials during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
• Robert W. Komer National Security Council staff member during the Kennedy administration who observed internal tensions over Israeli influence on U.S. Middle East policy.
• Samuel W. Lewis U.S. ambassador to Israel present at the pivotal 1981 Reagan White House meeting where Begin and Sharon proposed a sweeping U.S.-Israeli strategic alliance.
• Simcha Dinitz Simcha Dinitz was the Israeli ambassador to Washington D.C.
• Uri Lubrani Uri Lubrani was a former Israeli ambassador to Iran.
• Walter Stoessel Jr. U.S. Ambassador to Moscow exposed to the Soviet microwave Moscow Signal at the American embassy, later dying of leukemia along with two predecessors.