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Originally from Missoula, Deane Roesch Hinton has served as a career diplomat in many places throughout the world for close to 40 years. He has also been honored by the State Department and received a Presidential award for his diplomatic service in 1983. Some of his assignments came with controversy as noted below. He is also the author of ECONOMICS AND DIPLOMACY: A Life in the Foreign Service of the United States, by Deane Roesch Hinton – 2015.

 

Deane Roesch Hinton

 

ambassador

 

Deane Roesch Hinton, American ambassador. Recipient Department State Superior Service award, 1967; recipient Presidential award for distinguished diplomatic service, 1983. Served to Second lieutenant Army of the United States, 1943-1945. Member Council Foreign Relations, Foreign Service Association, Royal Central Asian Society, Society International Development.

 

 

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· Hinton, Deane Roesch was born on March 12, 1923 in Fort Missoula, Montana, United States. Son of Joe A. and Doris (Roesch) Hinton.

 

 

• Graduate, Elgin (Illinois) Academy, 1940. Bachelor, University Chicago, 1943. Postgraduate, University Chicago, 1946.

  Postgraduate, Fletcher School Law and Diplomacy also Harvard University, 1952. Graduate, National War College, 1962.

 

 

• Appointed foreign service officer, 1946. With Department State, Washington, 1946, 51-52, 55-58. 3d secretary, vice consul Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic, 1947-1948.

  2d secretary, vice consul Syrian Arab Republic, 1948-1949. Vice consul Mombasa, Kenya, 1949. Consul Kenya, 1949-1951.

  2d secretary, consul Paris, 1952-1955. Attache United States Mission to European Communities, Brussels, 1958-1959, 1st secretary, 1959-1961. Chief commodity programming division Department State, Washington, 1962-1963.

  Director Office Atlantic Political Economic Affairs, 1963-1967, Agency for International Development mission to, Guatemala, 1967-1969, Chile, economic counselor Santiago, Chile, 1969-1971. Assistant director Council International Economic Policy, Washington, 1971-1973, deputy director, 1973-1974. Ambassador Kinshasa, Zaire, 1974-1975.

  United States representative United States mission to European Communities, Brussels, 1976-1979, assistant secretary state for economics and business, 1980-1981. Ambassador San Salvador, El Salvador, 1981-1983, Islamabad, Pakistan, 1983-1987. Career ambassador Pakistan.

  Ambassador to Costa Rica, since 1987, Panama. Professorial lecturer American University, Washington.

 

 

Served to Second lieutenant Army of the United States, 1943-1945. Member Council Foreign Relations, Foreign Service Association, Royal Central Asian Society, Society International Development.

 

 

• Married Angela E. Peyraud, May 10, 1946 (divorced 1971). Children: Deborah, Christopher, Jeffrey, Joanna, Veronica. Married Miren de Aretxabala, December 6, 1971 (deceased November 1979).

  Stepchildren: Pedro, Guillermo, Miren, Maria, Juan, Sebastian. Married Patricia Lopez, February 14, 1983. 1 child, Deane Patrick.

• father: Joe A. Hinton

• mother: Doris (Roesch) Hinton

• spouses: Angela E. Peyraud

• Miren de Aretxabala

• Patricia Lopez

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  Some comments about Foreign Service Officer Deane R. Hinton by William Blum in his book ‘Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II’, appear below:

  “Deane Roesch Hinton was no ordinary Foreign Service career diplomat. He had worked closely with the CIA since the 1950s and was no stranger to extra-diplomatic operations. From 1967 to 1969 in Guatemala and the following two years in Chile (against Allende), Hintson, under the cover of the Agency for International Development (AID), had played a role in the CIA operations. He then served on a subcommittee of the National Security Council until taking up his post in Zaire in 1974.”

  While acting as US ambassador to Zaire in 1975, “Deane R. Hinton was ordered to leave the country and Zaire recalled its ambassador from Washington.”

  
  In his book, ‘Corporate Diplomacy in the Third World’, author Art Madsen briefly mentions Ambassador Hinton’s role in Zaire as he was concluding his duties there:

 

Dean Roesch Hinton, former Ambassador to Guatemala and Chile, implicated in the overthrow of the left-leaning Guatemalan regime and, later, of the Allende Government in Chile, was appointed Ambassador to Zaire in the 1974 time frame.

 

While he was relatively tranquil in the initial stages of his mandated term in Kinshasa, and participated in many of the duties normally expected of a plenipotentiary diplomat, commendably representing his country at such functions as the ceremony marking assembly of the First Tower of the 1700 Kilometer Inga-Shaba Transmission Line, held in sweltering heat at Gombe-Matadi in Bas-Zaire during November of 1974, he took advantage of such occasions to persistently wedge himself into the relationship between the MKI Consortium (CIS) and the Zairian Government.

 

This hardline political stance, foisting American ideology on an African Government preparing literally to adopt the teachings of Kim-Il-Sung, combined with the fast-moving, arguably Soviet-inspired events of June 1975, got Ambassador Hinton, a decorated American career diplomat, quite dramatically thrown out of Zaire, on the heels of an “abortive coup”, responsibility for which was summarily assigned to him by the Mobutu Regime. Declared “persona non grata” and given 48 hours to depart, Ambassador Hinton created a near-crisis situation in relations between the U.S. and Zaire, daring to call into question the “integrity” of President Mobutu, who, admittedly, had been responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Zairians and the impoverishment of tens of millions more.