NOTE TO GENERAL CARTER FROM BERNIE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000200150012-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 2002
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: July 2, 1964
• Content Type: NOTES

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2 July 1964
General Carter:
Attached papers are for your use in connection with luncheon
you are hosting for Ambassador Kidder at 1200 today in the large
dining room. Following is the firm guest list:
General Carter
Ambassador Kidder
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BRIEFING SCHEDULE
for
RANDOLPH A. KIDDER
Ambassador to Cambodia
Room 7-D-34
0930 - 1145 - 2 July 1964
0930 - 1000 OTR
1000 - 1030 ONE
1030 - 1045
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The Ambassador will be accompanied by Mr. Richard K. Stuart, INR/DDC
Attachment: Biographic sketch
Coordination and Escort Officer:
TINTL Liaison Staff/CR, Extension
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16 June 1964
The President today announced his intention to nominate Randolph Appleton Kidder of
the District of Columbia as the United States Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia.
Mr. Kidder will replace Ambassador Philip D. Sprouse, who is being reassigned.
Born at Ipswich, Massachusetts, on July 6 1913, Mr. Kidder received a Bachelor's
degree from Harvard University in 1935. He subsequently studied at the University of
Grenoble (France) and the University of Jena ,(Germany) and attended 1' Ecole Libre des
Sciences Politiques (Paris) from 1935 to 1937. Mr. Kidder entered the Foreign Service
in 1938 and from that year to 1949 served in a variety of consular and diplomatic
assignments in Canada, Australia and Brazil.
In 1949 Mr. Kidder served as Advisor to the U. S. Delegation to the Fourth Session of
the General Assembly of the United Nations. He was named Officer-in-Charge of
Brazilian Affairs in 1950 and attended the National War College in 1952. Mr. Kidder
was appointed First Secretary and Consul at Saigon, Phnom Penh and Vientiane in 1953,
and in 1954 he became Counselor of Embassy and Deputy Chief of Mission at Saigon.
He returned to the Department in 1955 to serve as Special Assistant to the Deputy Under
Secretary of State for Administration. He was named Counselor of Embassy for
Political Affairs at Paris in 1958 and remained there until 1962 when he was named a
Senior Foreign Service Inspector in the Department of State. He is married to the
former Dorothy Douglas Robinson. They have two children, Michael R. and Charlotte.
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BIOGRAPHIC DATA
KIDDER, Randolph Appleton
Randolph Appleton Kidder was born in Massachusetts
on 6 July 1913. He is a graduate of Harvard University
(S.B. 1935). He attended the University of Grenoble,
France, in 1935; The Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques,
Paris, France, from 1935 to 1937; and the University of
Jena, Germany, during the summer of 1936. He is married,
and he speaks French.
6 April 1938
Appointed Foreign Service Officer
(FSO) unclassified, Vice-Consul
and Secretary in the Diplomatic
Service; Vice-Consul at Montreal,
Canada, 11 April 1938.
8 January 1940 Assigned to Sydney, Australia, as
Vice-Consul; also 3rd Secretary
at Canberra, 26 December 1940;
promoted to FSO-8, 16 July 1943.
5 July 1944
26 April 1946
2 September 1949
1 June 1953
Assigned to Paramaribo, Surinam,
as Vice-Consul and later Consul;
promoted to FSO-7, 16 May 1945.
Assigned to Rio de Janeiro as 2nd
Secretary and Consul; FSO-6, 19
May 1946; FSO-4, 19 November 1946;
FSO-3 and 1st Secretary, 21 April
1949.
Assigned to Department of State,
Washington, D.C.; Officer-in-
charge, Brazilian Affairs, 26
May 1950; FSO-2, 21 February
1952; detached to National War
College, 22 August 1952.
Assigned to Saigon, Phnom Penh and
Vientiane as 1st Secretary and
Consul; Counsellor of Embassy at
Saigon, 23 July 1954.
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Assigned to Department of State;
Special Assistant to Deputy
Under-Secretary of State for
Administration, 21 October 1955;
FSO-1 and Consul-General, 29
January 1957.
1 June 1958 Assigned to Paris as Counsellor
for Political Affairs.
16 September 1962 Appointed Senior Foreign Service
Inspector.
17 June 1964 Nominated as Ambassador to
Cambodia.
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