John Tuthill

John Tuthill    ( diplomat)
Born	November 10, 1910  Montclair,  New Jersey
Died	September 9, 1996 (Age 85)
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	•  College of William and Mary •  New York University •  Harvard University
Children	Carol Ann David Wills
Spouse	Erna Margaret Lueders
Member of	Atlantic Institute
Interests	Marshall Plan
Active in developing the Marshall Plan's OEEC and then US Ambassador to the European Economic Community. Attended the 1966 Bilderberg.  President  In office 1977 - 1985 Employer Salzburg Seminar  Director-general In office 1969 - 1976 Employer Atlantic Institute  US/Ambassador/Brazil  In office June 30, 1966 - January 9, 1969 "The CIA will guide Tuthill"  US/Ambassador/EEC In office 1962 - 1966 Succeeded by Robert Schaetzel  US/Ambassador/OECD  In office October 4, 1961 - October 22, 1962

John Wills Tuthill was a U.S. career diplomat who was stationed in Latin America, Canada, and Europe. He was active in developing the Marshall Plan's OEEC and then was appointed US Ambassador to the European Economic Community. He attended the 1966 Bilderberg.

Education

He graduated from the College of William and Mary class of 1932, received graduate degrees from New York University master's in business administration and master's degree in economics from Harvard. A quarterback during his college years, Jack Tuthill was named a Sports Illustrated Special All American in 1956.

Career

He taught banking and finance for two years at Northeastern University in Boston before joining the U.S. Foreign Service in 1940.

His diplomatic career extended from 1940 to 1969. Was stationed in Ottawa, Canada as Vice Consul in 1943. He worked in Mexico before being assigned to London on the staff of Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, under the command of U.S. Army Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Was an aide to General George C. Marshall in 1947 and stationed in Bonn, Germany. He was active in developing the Marshall Plan's Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC). In an interview, he mentioned the use of the counterpart funds, a part of the Marshall Plan that became a CIA slush fund: "An awful lot of funds had developed in Germany which were used for all sorts of purposes, useful purposes--by and large."

He had a a long relationship with Jean Monnet, discussing "how to establish a new Atlantic relationship between the United States and the unified Europe". He was a friend of François Duchene, the second head of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.

He became U.S. Ambassador to the OECD in Paris from 1960 to 1962. He was United States Ambassador to the European Economic Community in Brussels from 1962 to 1966.

Q:One last question on the European side of your career. What was the role of our involvement in Vietnam? Was this a problem for you?
Tuthill: Well, it was a problem that only manifested itself when, for example, Dean Rusk came and lectured to all my friends in the European Commission about Vietnam. I used to go to Bilderbird meetings occasionally, and I remember at that time I didn't know explicitly, but I assumed that George Ball was in disagreement with Vietnam. It turns out now that he documented his disagreement in writing to both Kennedy and Johnson. George used to go to those meetings pretty regularly, and I've sat there and watched George defend our position in Vietnam. To somebody that didn't know, you couldn't for a moment suspect that he was in disagreement. While he was in the government, he explicitly gave the rationale and the arguments for our being there. So that it really didn't bother me very much.

"Fulbright says CIA will guide Tuthill"

He was U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, 1966 to 1969, then a military dictatorship being propped up by the US. Despite having no knowledge of Latin America, he was recommended by outgoing ambassador Lincoln Gordon because the US had a $300 million a year aid program, and Tuthill had had a fair amount of work on the Marshall Plan. People in Brazil under him included Samuel Lewis, Frank Carlucci, Mickey Boerner, Herb Baker and Vernon Walters and Herbert Okun.

Well, the CIA contingent was too large and too obvious. The very top floor of the chancellory was CIA, full of equipment, equipment on the roof and everything. And everybody knew it was CIA. You know, a cleaning woman would know, you know. Anybody would know. And secondly, it's the easiest thing in the world to identify the people in the embassy, or most of them who were CIA.
Then Fulbright didn't help any, because in my hearings, he asked, "Why are you being sent to Brazil?" and I said, "You've got to ask somebody else; don't ask me." And he said, finally, "Well, Ambassador Tuthill, I know that this committee and the Senate will give its consent to your nomination because of your record, but you don't know anything about Brazil, and you go down there, and you will find a deputy who's a CIA man, and he'll just show you around and explain everything to you." Well, I did have a deputy; he wasn't a CIA man at all--Phil Raine, who was a USIA man, who was, in fact, very familiar with Brazil. But Fulbright did a disservice, because, of course, the Brazilian papers picked that up immediately and said, "Fulbright says CIA will guide Tuthill".

Later activities

After retiring from the Foreign Service Ambassador Tuthill was a professor of international politics at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University. Was Director General of the Atlantic Institute for International Affairs in Paris from 1969 to 1975. From 1976 until returning to Washington area in 1988, he was the fifth president of the Salzburg Global Seminar a non-profit organization based in Salzburg, Austria whose mission is groom future European leaders. He became the executive director of the American-Austrian Foundation.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1966	25 March 1966	27 March 1966	Germany Wiesbaden Hotel Nassauer Hof	Top of the agenda of the 15th Bilderberg in Wiesbaden, Germany, was the restructuring of NATO. Since this discussion was held, all permanent holders of the position of NATO Secretary General have attended at least one Bilderberg conference prior to their appointment.
Bilderberg/1971	23 April 1971	25 April 1971	US Vermont Woodstock Woodstock Inn	The 20th Bilderberg, 89 guests

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