Alfred Atherton: Difference between revisions

Atherton joined the [[U.S. Foreign Service]] in 1947, and served in [[Stuttgart]], [[Bonn]], [[Damascus]], and [[Aleppo]]. From 1959 to 1961, he was Iraq-Jordan desk officer, then Officer in Charge for [[Cyprus]], in the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs at the State Department. During 1961-62 he took advanced economic studies at the University of California at Berkeley.<ref>{{cite web |date=1990 |title=The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR ALFRED LEROY ATHERTON, JR. |url=https://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Atherton,%20Jr.,%20Alfred%20Leroy.toc.pdf |titleaccess-date=AMBASSADOR16 ALFREDJuly LEROY2024 ATHERTON, JR|publisherwebsite=The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project|authorpublisher=Mak, Dayton|year=1990}}</ref>