-Caveat Lector- Posted on Fri, Jan. 31, 2003 http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/nation/5070119.htm Edward Korry, 81, diplomat implicated in Allende plot
BY BART BARNES Washington Post Service Edward Korry, 81, a former ambassador to Chile who in the 1970s was a central figure in media accounts of U.S. covert action against Chile's Marxist president, Salvador Allende, died of cancer Wednesday at his home in Charlotte, N.C. Korry also was a former ambassador to Ethiopia, European editor for Look magazine and a United Press International correspondent in post-World War II Europe. In 1972 and 1973, he was president of the Association of American Publishers, and later he was president of the United Nations Association of the United States. But it was his service as ambassador to Chile from 1967 to 1971 that would thrust Korry into the media spotlight in 1975, when the Senate Intelligence Committee, headed by Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, began investigating the U.S. and CIA roles in plots to overthrow Allende. Reports and documents from the Intelligence Committee depicted Korry as the ''sponsor of a covert campaign against Allende,'' The Washington Post's Don Oberdorfer wrote in 1976. The intense media coverage was sufficient, Korry said, to ruin his public- service career and make him unemployable in the media. From 1977 to 1979, he taught international relations at Connecticut College, and from 1980 to 1982, he was a visiting scholar at Harvard's Center for International Studies. In 1981, The New York Times, in what Time magazine called a ''2,300-word correction,'' wrote that although the CIA had attempted to orchestrate a military takeover in Chile, ``none of this, it is now evident, was known to Ambassador Korry.'' Korry was born in New York and graduated from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. After college, he worked briefly as a news summarizer for NBC radio in New York, then joined United Press, which in 1947 sent him to London. Later, he was assigned to Belgrade as the chief United Press correspondent for eastern Europe. In 1948, he was the only U.S. reporter at the celebrated treason trial of the anticommunist Roman Catholic Primate of Hungary, Cardinal Josef Mindszenty. As a UPI correspondent in Greece, he helped bring about the release and return to next of kin of refugee children captured in the civil war. President Kennedy appointed him ambassador to Ethiopia in 1963. In that role, he received a Superior Honor Award for helping bring about the release of U.S. diplomats and their dependents who were being held captive by Yemeni revolutionaries. Survivors include his wife of 52 years, Patricia; four children, Kelly Korry of Mesa, Ariz.; Edward Korry of Warwick, R.I.; Deborah Simcox of Englewood, N.J.; and Alexandra Korry of New York; and six grandchildren. � 2001 miamiherald and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved. http://www.miami.com Forwarded for your information. 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