Keeley, Robert V.
ROBERT V. KEELEY was a U.S. Foreign Service officer from 1956 to 1989. He retired with the rank of Career Minister, having served as ambassador to Mauritius, Zimbabwe, and Greece; as deputy chief of mission in Uganda and Cambodia; and as deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs. From 1990 to 1995, he was president of the Middle East Institute in Washington. Since 2005 he has chaired the Council for the National Interest Foundation, working for peace in the Middle East.
A major event in the history of the Cold War, the Colonels’ Coup of April 21, 1967, ushered in seven years of military rule in Greece, turning the Greek democracy into yet another country where fear of Communism led the United States into alliance with a repressive right-wing authoritarian regime....