{{Short description|American diplomat}} {{Infobox person | name = Edward M. Korry | image = Korry.png | image_size = 250px | caption = | birth_name = Edward Malcolm Korry | birth_date = January 7, 1922 | birth_place = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2003|1|29|1922|1|7}} | death_place = [[Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte]], [[North Carolina]], [[U.S.]] | occupation = Diplomat, Journalist | years_active = 1945-2003 (his death) | spouse = | children = | education = }} '''Edward Malcolm Korry''' (January 7, 1922 – January 29, 2003)<ref>[http://njlaw.rutgers.edu/collections/gdoc/hearings/7/75601728/75601728-0008.pdf Statement of Hon. Edward M. Korry, US ambassador]</ref> was an American [[diplomacy|diplomat]] during the administrations of [[President of the United States|Presidents]] [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]], [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Johnson]], and [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]].

Korry, a native of [[New York City]], was U.S. Ambassador to [[Ethiopia]] (1963-1967) and to [[Chile]] (1967–1971). During the Allende administration, the U.S. under Nixon implemented a tougher economic policy toward Chile, decreased economic aid, and prevented access to loans. The US support for the opposition culminated in the [[1973 Chilean coup d'état|September 11th, 1973 coup]] that overthrew [[Salvador Allende|Allende]], and resulted in the dictatorship of [[Augusto Pinochet]].

Prior to his appointment to Ethiopia by John F. Kennedy, Korry was European editor for [[Look (American magazine)|''Look'' magazine]] and a [[United Press]] correspondent and European Editor in post-[[World War II]] Europe. In 1954, Korry became the Chief United Press Correspondent for Europe after working as in the same position for Eastern Europe and as United Press Manager for Germany and France.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |title=Ambassadors Chosen for Thailand, Chile, Hungary and Chad |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112108168839&seq=484 |journal=State Department Newsletter |pages=16 |via=Hathitrust}}</ref> Korry graduated from [[Washington and Lee University]].<ref name=":0" /> He joined the Foreign Service in 1939 after serving as a consultant to the [[Undersecretary of State]] and as a public member of one of the Foreign Service selection boards in 1962.<ref name=":0" /> In 1972 and 1973, he was president of the [[Association of American Publishers]], and later, he was president of the [[United Nations Association of the United States of America]]. Korry was also a founding director of the Committee for East-West Relations and a member of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]].

Korry fought to preserve his reputation against widespread press reports, many of them by journalists who had been his peers and friends during his reportorial career, and who colluded or sourced their information from staff members of Senator Church’s Committee to the effect that he had played an instrumental role in a military coup to depose and kill Allende, despite Korry's repeated public claims that he had known nothing of the CIA's plans to foment this, nor had he played any role in it. In 1981, ''[[The New York Times]]'', in what [[Time magazine|''Time'' magazine]] called a "2,300-word correction," wrote that although the [[CIA]] had attempted to orchestrate a military takeover in Chile, "none of this, it is now evident, was known to Ambassador Korry".<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hersh|first=Seymour M.|date=1981-02-09|title=NEW EVIDENCE BACKS EX-ENVOY ON HIS ROLE IN CHILE|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/09/world/new-evidence-backs-ex-envoy-on-his-role-in-chile.html|access-date=2021-11-19|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=1981-02-23|title=Press: The 2,300-Word Times Correction|language=en-US|work=Time|url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,949089,00.html|access-date=2021-11-19|issn=0040-781X}}</ref> This "correction" occurred while Korry was teaching a course on International Relations at [[Connecticut College]] in New London, CT. [[File:JFK and Ambassador Korry.jpg|thumb|Edward M. Korry (right) with President [[John F. Kennedy]], 1963]] Korry died from cancer on January 29, 2003 in [[Charlotte, North Carolina]].

==References== {{reflist}} * {{cite web | first = Bart | last = Barnes | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A63803-2003Jan29&notFound=true | title = Edward M. Korry Dies; Diplomat and Journalist | work = [[The Washington Post]] | date = 2003-01-30 | page = B06 | access-date = 2007-08-22 }}{{dead link|date=June 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

==External links== * {{wikiquote inline|Edward M. Korry}}

{{s-start}} {{s-dip}} {{succession box | title = [[United States Ambassador to Ethiopia]] | before = [[Arthur L. Richards]] | after = [[William O. Hall]] | years = 9 March 1963–22 September 1967 }}

{{succession box | title = [[United States Ambassador to Chile]] | before = [[Ralph A. Dungan]] | after = [[Nathaniel Davis]] | years = 16 October 1967–12 October 1971 }} {{s-end}}

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