Sally Shelton

Sally Shelton   (diplomat)
Born	August 29, 1944 San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
Nationality	US
Alma mater	University of Missouri, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Sciences Po
Spouse	• Eduardo Jimenez • William Colby
Member of	Atlantic Council, Council on Foreign Relations/Members 3
Interests	arranged marriage
Party	Democratic
Spooky US diplomat Atlantic Council, USAID, and NED. Married former CIA director William Colby.  Deputy Secretary-General In office 1999 - 2001 Employer OECD  Assistant Administrator In office 1993 - 1999 Employer USAID  US/Ambassador/Barbados In office June 7, 1979 - February 24, 1981 Includes accreditation to soon-to-be-invaded Grenada.

Sally Angela Shelton-Colby is an American diplomat. From 1979 until 1981, she was US Ambassador to ten political entities in the Caribbean, including soon-to-be-invaded Grenada. She has since then been working for a number of spooky entities, including Atlantic Council, USAID, and NED.

In 1984 she married former CIA director William Colby. She previously briefly married into a a strategic Mexican family.

Background

She studied a year SAIS Bologna in Italy, and then the second year of the SAIS program in Washington DC, and did an MA in international relations. She then went as a Fulbright scholar to study briefly at Sciences Po in Paris in 1968.

First marriage in Mexico

After that, she went to live in Mexico from 1969 to 1971, teaching at two universities, a course on U.S. foreign policy at the Ibero-American University and a course on Vietnam at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

She married a Mexican politician whom she had earlier met at SAIS. Her husband was very much involved in politics, and had worked for President Lopez Mateos. His entire family was in politics, "a supernationalistic, anti-American family". His father was a general in the Mexican Army. The marriage was unsuccessful, but she got a "bird's eye view into the inner workings of the Mexican political system." Coming in and out of her parents-in-law's house were many of the politicians who later took office, as very young people at the time. They also constantly had Mexican military officers in and out of the house.

Diplomatic Career

After two years in Mexico, she left and came back to the United States, where she got a job, almost sight-unseen, with Senator Lloyd Bentsen, doing foreign policy and a variety of other issues for him from 1971 to 1977, when she joined the Foreign Service.

She was nominated to become United States Ambassador to El Salvador in 1977, but her nomination was rejected, as the counterinsurgency was heating up and the place needed a more experienced person. Instead Cyrus Vance and the White House offered her a job as deputy assistant secretary of state for Latin America.

From 1979 to 1981, she was Ambassador of the United States to are ten political entities in the Caribbean; three independent countries, another four that were called associated states that were on their way to independence, and then three that were still UK Crown Colonies. The islands were Barbados, Grenada and Dominica as well as Minister to St Lucia, and Special Representative to Antigua, St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla, and St. Vincent .

The embassy was on Barbados, with a staff of a hundred and fifty-five plus a couple of hundred Peace Corps workers.

Grenada

Regarding Grenada, which was invaded by the US in 1983, she "ultimately concluded, however, that they did not want good relations with us", because the Grenadians were "telling their old lies and myths about what we were and were not doing." Eventually, Shelton decided to send in a political officer, Ashley Wills, to do the dirty work. Grenadian leader Maurice Bishop suspected Wills of working with the CIA, and given his role in establishing a Voice of America station in Antigua. Wills was later stationed on the deck of the USS Guam off the coast of Grenada during the invasion.

By the time of the 1983 invasion of Grenada, Shelton was the Caribbean director for a risk assessment service called International Business-Government Counsellors, Inc., which Reagan CIA Director William Casey was a senior advisor for.

Later career

After completing her ambassadorship, she taught at Harvard University.

She was a Vice President of Bankers Trust Co. in New York City where she was responsible for managing the bank's political risk in developing countries during the third world debt crisis of the 1980s.

She was Director of Valero Energy Corporation, a Fortune 500 oil and gas company, and of Baring Brothers's Puma Fund, an investment fund traded on the London Stock Exchange.

In 1984, she married former CIA director William Colby.

In the Clinton administration, she was an Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development.

For her job at USAID, she spent most of her time in Russia and Egypt, and, to some extent, South Africa. She dealt with a wide range of issues, including "education and health care" in India and China. and a "transparency" program in Mexico City.

1999-2001, she was Deputy Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

She was also active in the International Planned Parenthood Federation.

She was on the board of Atlantic Council.

In 2010 she became a professor at American University, where she taught three undergraduate and graduate classes on U.S. foreign policy.

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