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Al-Monitor

The site also conducts interviews with newsmakers, including Deputy Secretary of State William Joseph Burns; former Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department Anne-Marie Slaughter; former U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel; and Mustafa Barghouti, a one-time candidate for Palestinian Authority president who has championed non-violent resistance to Israel.

CIA activities in Afghanistan

U.S. State Department Special Envoy to Afghanistan Edmund McWilliams, after numerous tours of the interior of Pakistan, found that Afghan people were unhappy with the Wahhabist-leaning and anti-American Hekmatyar contingent, and recommended pulling back support for fighting in favor of a political settlement involving more of the ex-pat Afghan professional class.

Concealed Enemies

Concealed Enemies is an American television docudrama of the events leading to the arrest, conviction, and imprisonment of former U.S. State Department official Alger Hiss.

David E. Mark

In the early 1960s, Mark served in various capacities in INR at the U.S. State Department until his appointment as United States Ambassador to Burundi from 1974 to 1977.

Donald Minnegan

Because of this, the U.S. State Department and U.S. Army recognized his "strong philosophy toward physical fitness and his proven expertise in the field" and sent him to Europe to establish a physical fitness program, with an emphasis on soccer, for American servicemen.

İbrahim Parlak

However, the U.S. State Department retroactively labeled PKK a "terrorist organization" in 1997.

James R. Dunlap

From 2001-2003, he served as the Special Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs at the U.S. State Department where he focused on economic issues and environmental conservation.

Jon Western

Jon Western was a Balkans and East European specialist in the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research in 1992, when hostilities broke out in the Bosnian War.

Jon Woronoff

From 1962 and into the early 1990s Woronoff worked as a simultaneous interpreter or translator for numerous international organizations, including the United Nations, World Health Organization, World Meteorological Organization, Organization of African Unity, Economic Commission for Africa, and the U.S. State Department.

Kay Boyle

Her husband was dismissed by Roy Cohn from his post in the Public Affairs Division of the U.S. State Department, and Boyle lost her position as foreign correspondent for The New Yorker, a post she had held for six years.

Mercyhurst University Institute for Intelligence Studies

Current professors include retired or former members of the Los Angeles Police Department, the National Drug Intelligence Center, the US State Department, the United States Army, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Pittsburgh Council for International Visitors

As the designated liaison for the U.S. State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program in Western Pennsylvania, GlobalPittsburgh designs and implements tailored itineraries for leaders in a variety of fields who are seeking a gateway to the local community and insights into American culture.

Raúl Héctor Castro

He worked for five years for the U.S. State Department as a foreign service clerk at Agua Prieta, a border city in his native Sonora, but he never forgot his dream of becoming a lawyer.

Shared Values Initiative

The Shared Values Initiative was a public relations campaign created by the U.S. State Department and directed by Charlotte Beers, a former Madison Avenue advertising executive, to persuade viewers to be more aware, open and accepting of America by dispelling myths about the treatment of Muslims.

Swedish response to Hurricane Katrina

On September 2, awaiting a formal request from the U.S. State Department, the Rescue Service Agency prepared a Hercules cargo aircraft filled with three complete GSM systems, first aid kits, blankets, ready-to-eat meals, generators, and 2 large water purification plants.

Sylvan Levin

He notably led the U.S. State Department sponsored European and South American tours of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess from 1954 to 1956.

Trafficking in Persons Report

The Trafficking in Persons Report is an annual report issued by the U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.

United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy and Global Women's Issues

This includes the general oversight responsibility for the U.S. State Department, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the U.S. Foreign Service, and public diplomacy and United States participation in the United Nations, its affiliated organizations, and other international organizations not under the jurisdiction of other subcommittees.


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38th parallel north

After the surrender of Japan in August 1945, the 38th parallel was established as the boundary by Dean Rusk and Charles Bonesteel of the U.S. State Department - War - Navy Coordinating Committee in Washington, D.C. during the night of the 10th of August 1945, four days before the liberation of Korea.

Al-Anfal Campaign

Writer Joost R. Hiltermann has said the United States government and U.S. State Department was particularly important in helping their then ally the Saddam Hussein government in avoiding any serious censure for the campaign and in particular the attack on rebels and civilians in the city of Halabja.

Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs

Walt Disney and a group of animators had been sent to South America in 1941 by the U.S. State Department as part of its Good Neighbor policy, and guaranteed financing for the resulting movie, Saludos Amigos.

Daniel Korski

He also undertook a secondment to the U.S. State Department under then US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Edward R. Murrow Award

Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Public Diplomacy, given to a U.S. State Department employee by the Fletcher School at Tufts University

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

The family continues to be active in social justice issues, especially modern abolition: Martha Lovejoy is a supervisor in the U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, which coordinates the United States Government's efforts to combat modern forms of slavery.

Gunther Barth

During two of those years he studied literature and art history at the University of Cologne; he also won a year-long fellowship, awarded by the U.S. State Department, which enabled him to study at the University of Oregon.

John Avery McIlhenny

During his time in Haiti, he clashed with Haitian president Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave over economic issues, which resulted in McIlhenny suspending Dartiguenave's salary, causing a diplomatic crisis and inviting private criticism from the U.S. State Department.

Millspaugh

Arthur Millspaugh (1883-1955), adviser at the U.S. State Department's Office of the Foreign Trade

Philip Grausman

He has also contributed to the Art in Embassies Program through the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. His work is included in various private, museum, and university collections, such as the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Louis B. Mayer Foundation, Los Angeles; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Udine, Italy.

Vogelgesang

Sandra Louise Vogelgesang (b. 1942), a United States Foreign Service officer and U.S. State Department official

Zambian Defence Force

U.S. State Department International Military Education and Training records from FY-2006 indicate a Zambian officer attended from 64 Armoured Regiment at Mikongo Barracks, east Lusaka.