James G. McCargar

James Goodrich McCargar , Christopher Felix (* 1920 in San Francisco , California - † May 30, 2007 ) was an American diplomat .

Life

He was born the last of four children. His parents were the industrialists Jesse McCargar (1879-1954) and Addie Goodrich (1882-1920). He graduated from Stanford University and worked briefly as a reporter for the Call Bulletin in San Francisco .

James G. McCargar joined the US diplomatic service in 1942 and was US Vice Consul in Vladivostok from 1942 to 1943 . With Ambassador William Harrison Standley he came to the US embassy in Moscow in 1943 as secretary. In 1943 he was accredited at the US embassy in the Dominican Republic , which at that time interviewed people who were able to flee from the German Reich in an extensive program. In 1944 he was ordered as a reservist in the United States Navy as a liaison officer to the Soviet war and merchant navy to Akutan (Alaska) and Unalaska .

1946 Embassy in US was at the Budapest as Counselor accredited. He worked there for The Pond , a US intelligence service that remained exempt from centralization to the CIA from 1948 to August 29, 1949 . From 1948 to 1950 James G. McCargar was accredited at the US Consulate in Genoa , headed the department for Southeast Europe and looked after protagonists of the young Italian democracy.

From 1950 to 1953 he was accredited at the US Embassy in Paris and was a member of the US delegation to the Allied Coordinating Committee .

In 1955 he joined the Free Europe Committee in New York as a lobbyist for the peoples of the Soviet sphere of influence at the United Nations . From 1956 to 1958 he was director of political, social and cultural programs in the European department of the Free Europe Committee in Paris. He stayed with his successor in this role as an external consultant until 1960.

In 1960 he campaigned for the election of John F. Kennedy as co-founder and secretary of the Americans Abroad for Kennedy .

In 1963 he published under the pseudonym Christopher Felix , A The spy and his masters: A short course in the secret, the fictional part of which he did not reveal, even in footnotes added in 1987.

In 1965 he helped Dirk Stikker to write his memories.

From 1978 to 1982 James McCargar advised Joseph Duffey , who was chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities Foundation , coordinated US policy at UNESCO and participated in its meetings.

In 1989 he published with William Egan Colby : Lost Victory: A Firsthand Account of America's Sixteen Year Involvement in Vietnam .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical data by James G. McCargar in: Foreign commerce weekly , volumes 16-17, United States. Dept. of Commerce (1944), 28
2. ^ Charles Gati, Failed illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution , 2006, 264 pp 74