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John A. Scali | |
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| 11thUnited States Ambassador to the United Nations | |
| In office February 20, 1973 – June 29, 1975 | |
| President | Richard Nixon Gerald Ford |
| Preceded by | George H. W. Bush |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
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| Born | John Alfred Scali (1918-04-27)April 27, 1918 Canton,Ohio,U.S. |
| Died | October 9, 1995(1995-10-09) (aged 77) Washington, D.C.,U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Helen Glock(1946–1973) Denise St. Germain(1973–1995) |
| Education | Boston University(BA) |
John Alfred Scali (April 27, 1918 – October 9, 1995)[1] was theUnited States Ambassador to the United Nations from 1973 to 1975.[2] From 1961 he was also a long time correspondent forABC News.
As a correspondent for ABC, Scali became an intermediary during theCuban Missile Crisis and later a part of the Nixon Administration. Scali gained fame after it became known in 1964 that in October 1962, a year after he joined ABC News, he had carried a critical message from KGB ColonelAleksandr Fomin (the cover name for Alexander Feklisov) to U.S. officials. He left ABC in 1971 to serve as a foreign affairs adviser to President Nixon, becoming U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in 1973. Scali re-joined ABC in 1975 where he worked until retiring in 1993.
Scali was contacted by Soviet embassy official (and KGB Station Chief) Fomin about a proposed settlement to the crisis, and subsequently he acted as a contact between Fomin and President Kennedy and the Executive Committee. However, it was without government direction that Scali responded to new Soviet conditions with a warning that a U.S. invasion was only hours away, prompting the Soviets to settle the crisis quickly.
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