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Biography of a State Department official Spear Berlin Crisis context
The record notes the career of a government official with B A from Cornell in 1946 and M A from George Washington in 1949. A Naval aviator in 1944, he served in anti submarine warfare in the South Atlantic and Okinawa in 1945. He joined the State Department in 1946 as biographic analyst and rose to Foreign Service officer in 1950. He reported on Eastern Germany, then on US bases in the Philippines, and later served as consular and political officer in Belgrade. He returned to Washington in 1957 as political desk officer for Yugoslavia Albania and Bulgaria, currently detailed to German affairs.
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