John Negroponte

John Dimitri Negroponte (born July 21, 1939 in London) is a United States diplomat.

Early years

He is the son of a shipowner of Greek origin settled in the United States. He also speaks English, Greek, French, Spanish and Vietnamese.

Education

He became a diplomat after finishing his studies at Yale University in the sixties, where he was elected to the Skull & Bones.

CIA member

He joined the CIA and was assigned to Vietnam where he was placed in charge of the Phoenix Program. He was political advisor in Saigon in 1964. From 1971 to 1973, Negroponte was the officer in charge of the National Security Council (NSC) for the section in charge of Vietnam. He also participated in the negotiations of the Paris agreements in 1973 together with Henry A. Kissinger.

Moved to Latin America

He was ambassador to Honduras, where he adopted five children, at the end of the seventies and beginning of the eighties, during the civil war in Nicaragua. At the end of the eighties he became ambassador to Mexico.

During the 1970s and 1980s, he was the subject of much controversy, due to his activities in Latin America, and his involvement in Nicaragua, as he directed the "contra" from his position as ambassador in Honduras, arming, equipping and training the Contras with the help of Otto Reich, an official of the United States Department of State. He is also credited with a nebulous role in Chile, where he collaborates with Kissinger in organizing Operation Condor.

Ascend globally

Immediately after the attacks of September 11, 2001, he was appointed ambassador to the UN by George W. Bush, and later to Iraq in April 2004 after the fall of Saddam Hussein. On February 17, 2005 he was appointed head of the new United States National Intelligence Council (DNI) by President Bush, with the official mission of avoiding new Intelligence errors such as those of September 11, 2001 and analysis errors. about Iraq. On April 21, 2005, his appointment to the direction of the DNI was approved almost unanimously by the Senate, by 98 votes to 2.

Among other activities, he was named by the Congress of the Union of Mexico, as ‹persona non-grata›. Famous for "starting wars" He has contributed to the instability of several countries and formed internal guerrillas as well as coups d'état.