Charles W Freeman, Jr : Ask Biography

Personal data

Date of birth

1943

Profession

diplomat

United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia

In office

15 June 1989 - 13 August 1992

President

George H. W. Bush

Succeeded by

Ray Mabus
(after interim Chargé d'Affaires - see ambassador list)

Preceded by

Walter Leon Cutler

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Charles W. ("Chas") Freeman, Jr. (born 1943) is an American diplomat, author, and writer. He has served for the State and Defense Departments in many different capacities in the past thirty years, with the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs calling his career "remarkably varied". He most notably worked as the main interpreter for Richard Nixon in his 1972 China visit and as the United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1989 to 1992, where he dealt with issues related to the Persian Gulf War. He is a past president of the Middle East Policy Council, co-chair of the U.S. China Policy Foundation, and vice-chair of the Atlantic Council. In February 2009, unnamed sources leaked to the news media, initially to The Politico, that Freeman was Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair's choice to chair the National Intelligence Council in the Barack Obama administration. After several weeks of criticisms from prominent supporters of Israeli policy, he angrily withdrew his name from consideration and charged that he had been the victim of a concerted campaign by what he called “the Israel lobby”.

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