Covert Action and Diplomacy

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsJohn D. StempelDr. John D. Stempel, a Senior Professor at the University of Kentucky's Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, was its Director from 1993 to 2003. Prior to that he spent twenty-three years in the United States Foreign Service, including three postings in Africa and four years in Iran, and as Director of the State Department's Operations Center. His final posting was Consul General in Madras, India. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he is the author ofInside the Iranian Revolution(Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1981). This article is adapted from his chapter of the same name to be published inStrategic Intelligence, Loch K. Johnson, ed., forthcoming from Greenwood/Praeger, Westport, Connecticut, in 2007.