DIPLOMAT NAMED SPECIAL LATIN ENVOY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000605700050-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: February 18, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON POST
18 February 1984
. Stone's Successor
Di lomat Named S ecial Latin Envo
p p y
President Reagan ,yesterday
nominated Harry W. Shlaudeman,
a controversial veteran diplo-
mat, to succeed Richard B. Stone
as special envoy to Central Amer-
ice.
Stone resigned last week, effec-
tive March 1, from the poet he
held only eight months, reportedly
because of .personality and turf
clashes with another key official
in the State Department.
Shlaudeman, 57, formerly am-
bassador to Peru, Argentina and
Venezuela, was assistant secretary
of state for Latin.America in 1976
.and mast recently served as ex-
By Joanne Omang ecutive secretary of the Kissinger lende but at helping to -keen op-
w.+nu~onYoasurrw?kr ~ ~ commission on Central America. onents functionin .
The nomination is sure to face a rte ouse created the
resistance in Congress, which special envoy's job last year in
must approve the choice. Shlau- part to put its own person in the
deman, a 30-year Foreign Service State Department policy-making
officer, was deputy .chief of mis- process on Central America and in
sion in Chile during the govern- part to assure Congress of its sin?
went of Salvador Allende, killed cerity in pursuing ~ poIitical so-
in emilitary coup in 1973. lution there.
Shlaudeman told the House ~ Stone reportedly clashed with
Foreign Affairs Committee in Assistant Secretary of State Lang-
-1974 that the United States had borne A. Motley, and President
not .intervene in ende's fall Reagan accepted his resignation
an a came under heave fire two with "great regret," White House
years star w en secret a ~nents spokesman Larry Speakes said.
by the'~~~i can oppoaition~ He added that Stone "would like
political parties and .media be- to return to the private sector but
came known. Th~n~ymenta: he at the same time remain available
sai~a+ere'umed not .against A1= to the administration."
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