- Edwin G. Corr
Edwin Gharst Corr (born 1934) was a
United States diplomat and served as aUnited States Ambassador to severalLatin-American nations. Corr is fromNorman, Oklahoma .Foreign Service
Edwin Corr joined the Foreign Service in 1961.
Between 1978-1980 he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters.
He and has served as U.S. Ambassador to Peru (1980-1981), U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia (1981-1985), and U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador (1985-1988).
Iran-Contra
Corr was investigated between 1986-1991 for possible involvement in the
Iran-Contra scandal . Corr gave voluntary interviews to the Independent Counsel in 1991 before ending his cooperation and invoking his Fifth Amendment right againstself-incrimination . Subsequently, a judicial order compelled Corr to testify and forced him to produce documents, under grants of immunity.Post Civil-Service Positions
Corr served as a Professor of
Political Science at theUniversity of Oklahoma from 1990-1996.Between 1995-2001, Corr was the Director of the Energy Institute of the Americas (EIA), a multi-national non-governmental organization he founded.
Corr has served as the Associate Director of the International Programs Center (IPC) of the
University of Oklahoma since 1996.
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