Michael Kozak

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Person.png Michael Kozak  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(spook, diplomat)
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BornSeptember 18, 1946
NationalityUS
Alma materBerkeley
Spooky US diplomat working for regime changes. Top handler of the cocaine-smuggling Contras.

Employment.png Senior Official for Global Criminal Justice

In office
January 20, 2021 - Present
EmployerDepartment of State
Appointed byJoe Biden

Employment.png Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
September 13, 2019 - January 20, 2021
Appointed byDonald Trump

Employment.png US/Ambassador/Belarus Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
September 15, 2000 - August 8, 2003
Attempted regime change

Michael G. Kozak is an American diplomat and spook in the United States Department of State who was Acting Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs from 2019 to 2021.[1] He previously worked as U.S. Ambassador to Belarus between 2000 and 2003, where he attempted a regime change, and chief of mission at the United States Interests Section in Havana between 1996 and 1999, and was a nominee to be U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador in 1991.[2][3]

Career

Kozak, whose 2001 effort to overthrow Belarus Alexander Lukashenko failed, had been a top handler of the cocaine-smuggling Contras.[4]


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