Marks, Edward
EDWARD MARKS retired from the Foreign Service as a Minister-Counselor after four decades, with early assignments in Kenya, Mexico, Angola, Zambia, Belgium, and Zaire. In 1976, he was ambassador to the Republics of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. In 1980 he attended the National War College, then moved to the Department of State as the deputy coordinator for counterterrorism. In 1986–89 he served as deputy chief of mission and chargé d’affaires in Colombo, then as deputy U.S. representative to the UN Economic and Social Council in New York, with a last hurrah in Honolulu.
In A Professional Foreigner (Potomac Books/U of Nebraska Press), volume #74 in the Diplomats and Diplomacy Series, Ambassador Edward Marks describes his life as a workaday American professional diplomat, including several close encounters with the U.S. military. Serving primarily in Africa and Asia, Marks was present during the era of...