Frederick Vreeland
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| Born | June 24, 1927 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | US | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | • Groton School • Yale | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parents | Diana Vreeland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Vanessa Mary Somers Vreeland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CIA spook who later became US Ambassador to Morocco.
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Frederick Dalziel Vreeland is a CIA spook who later became US Ambassador to Morocco.
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Background
He was the son of the fashion designer and editor of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue Diana Vreeland.[1]
Education
He attended Groton School and Yale.[1]
Career
In 1951 Vreeland became an Operations Officer with the Central Intelligence Agency, where he was posted under diplomatic cover in several countries. He officially retired in 1985.
During that time, his cover jobs were: Economic Officer, US Mission to the UN European Office (1952–1957); Economic Officer, US Mission to West Berlin (1957–1960); Political Officer, US Embassy Bonn, West Germany (1960–1963); Member, National Security Council, at the White House (1963); Economic Officer, US Embassy Rabat, Morocco (1963–1967); Political Officer, United States Mission to the United Nations (1967–1971); Political Officer, Embassy of the United States, Paris (1971–1978); Political Officer, Embassy of the United States, Rome (1978–1985).
In the Summer of 1963 he was temporarily a member of the National Security Agency in Washington, DC., in order to brief President John F. Kennedy in preparation for the latter's visit to Berlin in June 1963. At Kennedy's request, during one of the last of these briefings, he invented the phrase "Ich bin ein Berliner" and carefully taught the president how to pronounce those German words. This is confirmed by the Kennedy Memorial Library.[2]
After is "retirement" from the CIA, Vreeland was positioned as Director-General of the newly created Aspen Institute Italia 1985-1987.[3]
Vreeland was Vice President of John Cabot University from 1989 to 1991.
In 1990, he was nominated by President George H. W. Bush as United States Ambassador to Burma, but his nomination was not acted upon by the United States Senate and he instead served as ambassador to Morocco, taking up the appointment in 1991.[2]
