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Since September 11, 2001, U.S. public diplomacy has come under increased scrutiny along with renewed debate about its necessity. Until 1999, the United States Information Agency (USIA) was responsible for what is now called “public diplomacy,” conducting media, cultural, and educational exchange programs. Nine Lives recounts successful public diplomacy programs that could offer valuable lessons for current and future public diplomacy practitioners. It discusses terrorism, narcotics trafficking, Islamic customs and beliefs, and how each post differs in accordance with U.S. foreign policy objectives at the time. Allen Hansen’s memoir depicts the excitement, frustration, satisfactions, and glamour of his Foreign Service career with the USIA in nine countries to which he was posted during the Cold War. Each chapter provides informative insight on the host country’s relationship with the United States and outlines the objectives and programs of the U.S. Information Service (USIS, the agency’s overseas name). Hansen recounts the achievements or lack thereof of American and local personnel and shares vivid anecdotes about professional colleagues from the Department of State and other agencies. Intrigue, coups d’etat, civil war, a murder in Montevideo, and breathtaking, at times harrowing, adventures surround his global odyssey to exotic locales. Allen C. Hansen joined USIA as a member of its second junior officer training clas in 1954, a year after the agency’s creation. As a Foreign Service officer for 32 years, he served in nine countries and, periodically, in Washington, D.C. He retired in 1987 and has authored five books.
Nine Lives
Hansen, Allen C.
Since September 11, 2001, U.S. public diplomacy has come under increased scrutiny along with renewed debate about its necessity. Until 1999, the United States Information Agency (USIA) was responsible for what is now called “public diplomacy,” conducting media, cultural, and educational exchange programs. Nine Lives recounts successful public diplomacy programs...
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The life story of John Kormann, an adventurous diplomat, soldier, and intelligence officer, offers an inside view of significant events of the twentieth century. Following engaging boyhood experiences, paratrooper training, and combat in Europe in World War II, Special agent Kormann goes behind the lines to apprehend Nazi war criminals and uncover a mass grave. As an Army Counter Intelligence Corps field office commander in Berlin 1945–47, he searches for Martin Bormann and “Axis Sally,” rescues a German scientist from the Soviet NKVD in a case that made headlines, and reveals Russian espionage and other kidnapping efforts. In 1950, as a new Foreign Service officer, Kormann is placed in charge of three counties in Bavaria in the final days of the American occupation of Germany. Later he is involved in the abortive Hungarian Revolution, international efforts to deal with the Russians, the U-2 spy plane affair, and the Berlin Wall. He was political officer at Embassy Manila at the onset of the Marcos regime; officer-in-charge at Embassy Benghazi, Libya, when it was attacked and burned during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War; deputy chief of mission at Embassy Cairo during the Kissinger Middle East “shuttle diplomacy”; and a member of Director of Central Intelligence George H. W. Bush’s staff. Throughout his diplomatic service, Kormann remained active as an Army Reserve colonel, an expert in special operations, counterinsurgency, civil affairs, and intelligence. He retired after 35 years in government service, joined a presidential campaign staff, and then resumed an active life of painting, writing, and veterans’ affairs.
Echoes of a Distant Clarion
Kormann, John, G.
The life story of John Kormann, an adventurous diplomat, soldier, and intelligence officer, offers an inside view of significant events of the twentieth century. Following engaging boyhood experiences, paratrooper training, and combat in Europe in World War II, Special agent Kormann goes behind the lines to apprehend Nazi war criminals...
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