http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_Turkey
Turkish Republic
Joseph Grew (1927-1932)
Charles H. Sherrill (1932-1933)
Robert P. Skinner (1933-1936)
John Van A. MacMurray (1936-1941)
Laurence A. Steinhardt (1941-1945)
Edwin C. Wilson (1945-1948)
George Wadsworth (1948-1952)
George C. McGhee (1952-1953)
Avra M. Warren (1953-1956)
Fletcher Warren (1956-1960)
Raymond A. Hare (1960-1965)
Parker T. Hart (1965-1968)
Robert Komer (1968-1969)
William J. Handley (1969-1973)
William B. Macomber, Jr. (1973-1977)
Ronald I. Spiers (1977-1980)
James W. Spain (1980-1981)
Robert Strausz-Hupe (1981-1989)
Morton I. Abramowitz (1989-1991)
Richard Clark Barkley (1991-1994)
Marc Grossman (1994-1997)
Mark Robert Parris (1997-2000)
W. Robert Pearson (2000-2003)
Eric S. Edelman (2003-2005)
Former Ambassador Marc Grossman was involved with Plamegate!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Grossman
Valerie Plame Affair
Grossman played a peripheral role in the Plame Affair, at least in terms of what is currently known.
On 10 June 2003, an analyst at the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) sent a memo to Ambassador Grossman outlining Ambassador Joseph Wilson’s trip to Niger and mentioning that Wilson’s wife worked at the CIA. Reportedly, Grossman wanted the memo as background to use at a White House meeting on criticism of President Bush for using the Niger claim in his State of the Union speech.
According to the Washington Post, Grossman has refused to answer questions about the memo. The Post says it is not clear if Grossman actually talked about the memo or mentioned Mrs. Wilson at the meeting.[1]
On 6 July 2003, Richard Armitage asked the head of INR, Carl Ford, to send a copy of the memo to Colin Powell aboard Air Force One.
In Patrick Fitzgerald’s indictment of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby on October 28, 2005, Grossman is the Under Secretary of State mentioned as giving information about Plame to Libby.
It has been suggested by Libby’s legal defense that Grossman is biased because, according to Theodore Wells, Libby’s defense lawyer, Grossman and Wilson went to college and came up through the ranks of the State Department together.[2]
It is worth noting, however, that many people have said that the unnamed “State Department official” that Sibel Edmonds is accusing of blowing an undercover operation designed to identify and plug various US leaks of nuclear secrets is Marc Grossman.
And lookie here!
On 25 January 2008, Joshua Frank at dissidentvoice.org headlined “Why Bush Wants to Legalize the Nuke Trade with Turkey,” and presented evidence, from recent articles in The Times and elsewhere, in which FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds alleges that the Bush Administration is trying to cover up corrupt private sales of U.S. nuclear secrets to the A.Q. Khan network in Pakistan via Turkey, in which Marc Grossman was allegedly involved. Reportedly, a request which Bush “quietly announced on January 22 that the president would like Congress to approve the sale of nuclear secrets to Turkey” aimed to protect the people who had sold these secrets. “As with most stories of this magnitude, the U.S. media has put on blinders, opting not to report” it.
From the article....
Pentagon insiders say Eric S. Edelman, undersecretary of defense for policy, has sought to stop the awarding of a new contract to Coughlin. Edelman served as ambassador to Turkey from 2003 to 2005.
From the article: 'Pentagon insiders say Eric S. Edelman, undersecretary of defense for policy, has sought to stop the awarding of a new contract to Coughlin. Edelman served as ambassador to Turkey from 2003 to 2005.'