MIDDENDORF NOMINATED TO OAS JOB

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404250001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 16, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE WASHINGTON POST
16 March 1981
EXECUTIVE.
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President Reagan took some tune,
from his semi-social visit, to New
York over the weekend to announce
'a-few more appointments, including
that of J.. William Middendorf
II.'to,be the U.S. representative,
with ambassadorial status, to the
Organization ofAmerican States.
'-It, had. been, assumed that Mid-
dendorf, the president of Financial
General Bankshares Inc. who head-
ed up the transition team at the
.,Central Intelligence Agency, would
get'an administration .job of some
sort . The former ambassador and
Navy secretary wanted to be de.
. fence ~ secretary, but ~ that didn't
work Duty : s .
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