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36 unusual facts about United States Department of State


9th Airlift Squadron

The "Proud Pelicans" provide worldwide airlift to meet Department of Defense, Department of State and Presidential mobility requirements.

Adam Gurowski

From 1861 to 1863, he was translator in the state department at Washington, being acquainted with eight languages.

Alfred Lilienthal

During the Second World War, he worked for the State Department (1942–1943, Division of Defense Materials, and again 1945–1948) and served in the U.S. Army in the Middle East (1943–1945).

American Research Center in Egypt

Throughout its early years, the center received substantial funding from the United States Department of State.

Burning of Judas

The practice was once cited in the United States State Department's Religious Freedom Report for Greece.

Cesar Gonzmart

He married and fathered a son, César Gonzalez, Jr., who would eventually join the United States Department of State as a career diplomat.

Dadaab

In 1999, the United States classified the Bantu refugees from Somalia as a priority and the United States Department of State first began what has been described as the most ambitious resettlement plan ever from Africa, with thousands of Bantus in Dadaab scheduled for resettlement in America.

Disney animators' strike

Toward the end, Disney accepted a suggestion by Nelson Rockefeller, then head of the Latin American Affairs office in the State department, that he make a tour of Latin America as a goodwill ambassador.

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.

Donold Lourie

President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Lourie to a position in the State Department, and he served in that capacity for one year.

Fine Arts Quartet

In the late sixties, the United States Department of State sponsored the Quartet's tours to Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand, and by the late seventies, the Quartet had performed in 270 cities in 28 countries.

Guy Benveniste

He joined the Kennedy administration in December 1961 working in the State Department on cultural and educational issues.

Himie Voxman

He also served on the National Commission for Accreditation of Teacher Education and Welfare, on North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, as a field reader for music projects, on the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and as a member of the Academic Panel for cultural exchange projects for the United States Department of State.

History of the Jews in Serbia

According to the US State Department Report on Human Rights practices in Serbia for 2006,

Horseshoe Falls

In October 2007, the Horseshoe Falls was featured in a Disney produced video titled Welcome: Portraits of America, made for the United States Department of State and Department of Homeland Security to promote United States tourism.

Ignacio Coronel Villarreal

Both the governments of the United States and Mexico had an outstanding arrest warrant for Coronel; in addition, the United States Department of State was offering a reward of up to $5 million USD for information leading to his capture.

Immigration Daily

It offers sources of information such as the news items, which feature the latest memos, cables, fact sheets and other documents from government agencies such as United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and United States Department of State.

Israel Friedlander

The US State Department gave its permission for the trip, but would not issue passports or afford any protection to the commission members.

Jack Trout

In the fall of 2002, Trout began working with the United States Department of State in order to "train new diplomats in the art of projecting a positive image of America overseas" as a part of the Brand America campaign, which sought to improve public opinion about the upcoming Iraq War.

Jainal Antel Sali, Jr.

The United States government Rewards For Justice Program, United States Department of State offered a 5 million United States dollar (250,000,000 Philippine pesos) reward for Sali's capture, prior to his death.

Kate Markgraf

In 2012, Kate Markgraf traveled with Tony Sanneh to Ethiopia on behalf of the United States Department of State and US Soccer to work with youth in the Ethopian city of Dire Dawa.

Larry Carp

Prior to going into private practice he worked for the United States Department of State and then was Associate Counsel for the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights.

Mark Goffman

He has written speeches for state and federally elected officials, consulted to the United States Department of State and the White House.

Mitiga International Airport

Of the combat aircraft, the US State Department estimated in 1983 that fifty percent remained in storage, including most of the MiG fighters and Tu-22 bombers.

National Gazette

Jefferson enticed Freneau to come to Philadelphia to edit the Gazette by hiring him as a translator at the United States Department of State for an annual salary of $250.

No. 10 Squadron SLAF

The squadron was formed on January 5, 1996 at the SLAF Katunayake with six IAI Kfir multi-role fighter jets acquired from Israel, with US State Department approval.

OpenDocument Format Alliance

The executive director is Marino Marcich, who served for four years in the Bush administration's State Department prior to joining the ODF Alliance.

Paul Blanshard

Fifty years old by the onset of World War II, Blanshard served the State Department as an official in Washington and the Caribbean.

Roderic L. O'Connor

Roderic L. O'Connor (August 10, 1921 - October, 24, 1982) was a United States lawyer and official in the United States Department of State.

Sigur Center for Asian Studies

It was named for Gaston J. Sigur, Jr. (1924-1995), a Japan specialist whose career included positions at the National Security Council and the United States Department of State, as well as at George Washington University.

Somali Bantu

In 1999, the United States classified the Bantu refugees from Somalia as a priority and the United States Department of State first began what has been described as the most ambitious resettlement plan ever from Africa, with thousands of Bantus scheduled for resettlement in America.

Soviet anti-religious legislation

According to Christel Lane and the United States Department of State Bulletin of 1986, this meant that those under 18 years of age could not be part of a religion and therefore the law required that they be excluded from religious activities.

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.

Voter Education Project

The worldwide news stories, photos, and TV images of racist brutality, burning buses, and police suppression of Black civil rights undercut the State Department's effort to convince Asian and African nations to align themselves with Free World camp in international affairs.

William J. Duane

Like his predecessor, Louis McLane, who was moved to the Department of State, Duane refused to remove government deposits from the Bank of the United States and transfer them to state banks.

Work-related road safety in the United States

The U.S. Department of State provides safe travel and driving advice for 209 countries.


Abdul Aziz Said

His past and current public service includes consulting the United States Information Agency, United States Department of State, the United States Department of Defense, the United Nations Development Program, and the White House Committee on the Islamic World.

Adam John Glossbrenner

He was Clerk of the United States House of Representatives during the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses, and in the United States Department of State at Washington, D.C., in 1848 and 1849.

Alexandra Uteev Johnson

As a Foreign Service Officer she worked as an analyst in the Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research specializing in Soviet relations with Arab countries.

Ari Shapiro

On September 12, 2012, Shapiro was recorded coordinating a question to ask Mitt Romney with CBS News's Jan Crawford just before a press conference to be held by Romney intended to address the American administration's response via the State Department to the 2012 diplomatic missions attacks.

Bruce R. Kuniholm

Before coming to Duke University, Kuniholm worked in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research and as a member of the Policy Planning staff at the U.S. Dept. of State.

Center for Women in Government and Civil Society

CWGCS research has been supported through grants by the United States Department of Education, National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States Department of State (DoS), the Ford Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Charles H. Revson Foundation, and other government agencies, private foundations, and non-profit organizations.

Certificate of Loss of Nationality

The Certificate of Loss of Nationality of the United States (CLN) is a form of the Bureau of Consular Affairs of the United States Department of State which is completed by a consular official of the United States documenting renunciation or relinquishment of United States citizenship.

Daniel C. Kurtzer

Kurtzer joined the United States Department of State and was serving as a junior officer at the American Embassy in Cairo when Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981.

DARPA Network Challenge

Also inspired by the DARPA Network Challenge, a contest called Tag Challenge was sponsored by the United States Department of State and the Institute of International Education.

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 H. Magnuson

During his time in Congress he served on the Appropriations Committee subcommittee on Department of State, Justice and Judiciary, and the Department of the Interior.

Edward Weidenfeld

In 1999, Weidenfeld helped facilitate the return of Major League Baseball to Cuba for the first time in 40 years, participating in months of discussions with the United States Department of State, the Cuban Government, the MLB Commissioner’s office, the Baltimore Orioles and the MLB Players Association.

Fashion Careers College

FCC is recognized as an eligible educational institution by the United States Department of Education, United States Department of Homeland Security's United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Social Security Administration, State Department of Administration, State Department of Rehabilitation, The Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) and the Veteran’s Administration Agency.

İbrahim Parlak

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

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.

Joseph J. Sisco

Joseph John Sisco (October 31, 1919 – November 23, 2004) was a diplomat who played a major role in then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East and whose career in the State Department spanned five presidential administrations and numerous foreign-policy crises.

Jule Sugarman

He worked in the Office of Management and Budget from 1957 to 1959, then worked for the United States Department of Justice in the Federal Bureau of Prisons until 1962, when he took a position with the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs at the United States Department of State.

Kevin Plank

His mother, Jayne (née Harper), is a former mayor of Kensington, Maryland who went on to direct the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs at the United States Department of State under President Ronald Reagan.

Mark Wylea Erwin

This organization promotes the foreign policy of the United States through the State Department.

Max Thornburg

He was a petroleum adviser to the United States Department of State and a senior oil executive for the Standard Oil of California (SOCAL) and California-Texas Oil Company, Ltd. (Caltex) in the Middle East including Bahrain and Iran.

Nadja Hirsch

She then worked as a freelance psychologist and mediator and in 2007 entered the International Visitor Leadership Program of the United States Department of State.

Nisha Desai Biswal

Nisha Desai Biswal is an Indian-American who is Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs in the United States Department of State.

Nuclear program of Saudi Arabia

Furthermore, senior Clinton administration officials who were responsible for Mideast affairs at the time Khilewi sought asylum, including Robert Pelletreau of the State Department and Bruce Riedel of the National Security Council, said they found nothing in Khilewi's debriefings to back up the Media reports about a Saudi nuclear program.

Paul A. Trivelli

He has been posted to Mexico City, the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Quito, Panama City, El Salvador, Monterrey, and Managua.

Samuel L. Popkin

He has also served as consultant to political parties in Canada and Europe and to the Departments of State and Defense.

Ten Days That Shook the World

Upon returning from Russia during April 1918 from Kristiania in Norway, after being barred from either traveling to the United States or returning to Russia since February 23 by the State Department, Reed's trunk of notes and materials on the revolution—which included Russian handbills, newspapers, and speeches—were seized by custom officials, who interrogated him for four hours over his activities in Russia during the previous eight months.

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 Ambassador to Togo

The State Department established an embassy in Yaoundé in nearby Cameroon on January 1, 1960, with Bolard More as Chargé d'affaires ad interim.

United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies

It was formerly known as the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary during the 108th Congress (2003-2005), but responsibility for the State Department and the federal Judiciary are now handled by separate subcommittees.

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.