WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600010037-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 1999
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: September 21, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

New York City
;While Ambassador Maxwell
Taylor huddled with his
chiefs in Washington (page
43), another old Saigon hand
;was following the crisis from
afar and at the same time
setting out for a new career.
He is Frederick E. Nolting
'Jr., JFK's man in Saigon from
1961 to 1963, who retired
from the State Department this year to become
a vice presidept in the international division of
,.Morgan Guaranty Trust.
A tall; muscular .Virginian of 53, Nolting be-
came acareer diplomat in 1946, after stints as
' an investment broker in his native Richmond, a
'tour as a philosophy professor, and dirty as
a World War II Navy gunnery officer. IIe was
stationed in Paris (to ~Y-hich he will eventually
return for Morgan Guaranty] when JFK tapped
~ him for Saigon.
A transient for the moment, Nolting is staying '.
at New York's River Club, while his wife, Olivia,
keeps home in Washington with their four
daughters (ranging from 16 to 23). The amb,:~s-
sador-turned-banker follows Vietnam only in
the news columns and avoids advice. "No one. `
who is not close to the day-to-day happenings
should be saying what should be done." He is
betting on his old colleague, General Taylorl
:however, "I ,have great faith in Max Taylor.'.,,,.
Medford, Mass.
Another veteran of Vietnam,
Edmund Gullion, who also '
served as JFK's envoy to the
.Congo, is far from the dip-
lomatic wars and starting a '
new life on-the Tufts Univer-
sity campus here. Gullion, a I
career .man since 1937, was
No. 2 in the Saigon embassy
when the then Congressman .
Kennedy visited it in 1951. His briefing of the
future President-accurately forecasting the
French failure in Asia-earned him JFK's per-
sonal rating as "one of the brightest young dip-
lomats I have ever met." After reaching the
White House, the President plucked Gullion
from his stateside chores and shipped him to
Leopoldville with his new bride, Patricia. He
returned this spring and retired this month.
Right now, at 51, Gullion is getting his bear-
ings for his new post, dean of Tufts' Fletcher
School of Diplomacy, and looking for a new
home. (IIc and Patricia now live in a rented ,
house near the Manassas battleground in Vir- ,
ginia. j Following the Vietnam news "with greet
anxiety," Gullion feels the "roots of;the problem
go far back, to the period when t -was there:"
Like Nolting, he proposes no solutions. "I have
profound sympathy with those involved," he
says, "and the way to show that: sympathy is
not to second-guess them."
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