- William L. Eagleton
William Lester Eagleton, Jr. (born
August 17 ,1926 ,Peoria, Illinois ) served asUnited States Ambassador toYemen 1967,Tunisia 1977,Libya 1978-1979,Algeria 1979,Iraq 1980-1984 andSyria 1985-1988. He is also an author of The Kurdish Republic of 1946 (1961) and “Iraqi Kurdistan” in The World Today (1956). [http://www.mideasti.org/about/about_experts_resources.html]Eagleton served in the
United States Navy from 1944-46, and graduated fromYale University in 1948. He joined the U.S. foreign service in 1949.After his term as Ambassador to Syria ended in 1988, Eagleton worked with the
United Nations as Deputy Commissioner-General forPalestinian Refugees (1988-94), Special Coordinator forSarajevo (1996), and Director of UN Operations inWestern Sahara (1999). He rejoined the State Department in 2003 as a special advisor for Northern Iraq.External links
* [http://www.gulfinvestigations.net/document458.html United States Interests Section in Iraq Cable from William L. Eagleton, Jr. to the Department of State. "Follow-up on Rumsfeld Visit to Baghdad", December 26, 1983]
* [http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1984/82184b.htm Nomination of William L. Eagleton, Jr., To Be United States Ambassador to Syria]
* [http://www.nndb.com/people/684/000122318/ NNDB listing]
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