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1 the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project STEPHANIE SMITH KINNEY Interviewed By The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project STEPHANIE SMITH KINNEY Interviewed by: Charles Stuart Kennedy Initial Interview Date: March 25, 2010 Copyri ht 2012 ADST TABLE OF CONTENTS Background Born in Florida rowing up in Florida Race relations Vassar College% University of Madrid, Spain Harvard raduate School of Education (H SE, Teacher and lecturer Charles Merrill Marriage Southern racial integration Foreign Service -.ives Seminar/ Me0ico City, Me0ico1 Spouse of Foreign Service Officer% Teacher, 123251235 American school (Colegio Americano, Student body Threats and kidnappings Terry 8eonhardy President 8uis Echeverria Anti5Americanism Husband9s Consular duties Violence Partido Revolutionario Institutionalizado (PRI, Kissinger .ashington, D.C.% Spouse of Foreign Service Officer 123551236 Discomfort as Foreign Service wife Family 8iaison Office (F8O, Pregnancy Common Cause Dorothy Stansbury Seeking changes for Foreign Service .ives Hope Myers 8eslie Dorman 1 Association of American Foreign Service .ives (AAFS., Report re concerns of FS Spouses and Families (1236, David and Jean Newsom Birth of daughter Entered the Foreign Service 1236 State Department1 Bureau of Cultural Affairs (CU,% Fulbright Officer 1236 State Department1 Office of the Director eneral% Policy Coordination Team 12365 1232 Family 8iaison Office (F8O, Carol 8aise Purpose and function .omen9s Action Organization (.AO, Allison Palmer John and Cynthia Thomas Jane Dubs Declaration on Spouses (1231, AAFS. and Capitol Hill Jean Newsome (Newsom, FS Spouse employment 8unch Bunch Members Jewel Fenzi Married to the Foreign Service Community 8iaison Office (C8O, Function -Class/ in the Foreign Service Skills Bank Charles Hill Officer Evaluation Report Harry Barnes Rome, Italy1 Assistant Environment, Science A Technology AttachBC 123251281 Visa Officer (Tandem assignment with husband, Ambassador Richard ardner and Danielle Housing problems Former Ambassador Volpe Political developments Daughter9s schooling Italian5American community Husband9s tandem assignment Italy drug problem 8iving in Rome Communist Party 2 Jimmy Carter visit Visa work Ustik Avico Catholics Environment Italian science and medicine New Fork City, NF1 USIA International Visitors Programming Office 12815128E (Tandem assignment with husband, 8iving in New Fork City Husband9s assignment at USUN Operations Visiting artists New Fork Police Department -drive around/ NFC population problems Programming visits State Department1 Uruguay5Paraguay Desk Officer 128E51286 .orking with ambassadors Uruguayan culture overnment Rich Brown Economic Support Funds for Uruguay Uruguay9s place in South America Uruguay Round Ambassador Art Davis Josef Mengele Ambassador Clyde Taylor Stroesser Paraguay culture Uruguayan embassy Paraguayan embassy Professional women in ARA Elliot Abrams Caracas, Venezuela1 Administrative OfficerCAssistant Cultural Affairs Officer 12865 1282 (Tandem assignment, Housing Ambassador Otto Reich EarthGuake Pushing democracy Robert Redford Vice President Dan Huayle visit Corruption Political Parties E European and Cuban elites Miami relations Venezuelan women Protestant evangelicals Maestro Dudamel Religions Economy President Carlos Andres Perez Ethnic communities US oil interests Cultural e0hibits Universities ColombiaCVenezuela relations State Department1 Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science (OES, 12825122E International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, Presidential Meeting, 1220 Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC, 5 1221 Delegates Process Soviet Union environment legacy lobal warming 8ack of funding Communist failures N O9s Richard Benedict Bill Nitze UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED, Response Strategies .orking roup (RS. , Robert Reinstein -UN Speak/ Criticism of US negotiating preparedness reen Parties Environmentalists in US UN and lobal .arming European political interests 533 interests in solutions President eorge Bush Office of lobal Change (OESCO C, Fred Bermtal Technology transfer Third .orld money issues National Science Foundation (NSF, John Sununu .orld Trade Organization (.TO, Science Community I National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, European Community (EC, Country Studies Program Climate technology cooperation Coal -Sustainable Development/ Political and economic interests in climate negotiations Kyoto Protocol Rio Conference, 1222 Environmental Policy Office (OESCENV, Senator Al ore UN anti5treaty activities European Formula Eileen Claussen Mr. Barroso Civil ServiceCForeign Service cultures Purges 8essons learned Montreal Protocol on Ozone Depletion Ozone depleting substances Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC9s, US leadership Malta influence reenhouse gasses Non5government organizations eorge Bush 8essons from FCCC negotiations Copenhagen Conference of the Parties, 2002 Foreign Service participation in negotiations Secretary Jim Baker Bob Koellick eneral Agreement on Tariff and Trade ( ATT, Tragedy of the Commons Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF, 122E5122I Course of study Copenhagen, Denmark1 Regional Environment, Science and Technology Officer 122I5 1223 Budget Soviet legacy in East Europe Paldiski nuclear reactor Soviet Union Black Triangle Underground press Baltics International Visitors Program 5 Environmentalism Non5government organizations (N O9s, .orldwide Regional Environmental Hubs Operations Environmental Hub System USSR9s nuclear naval training reactor -the woman9s card/ Helsinki Commission Soviet military USAID Regional religions Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC,, 1221 National differences Technology transfer Robert Reinstein Topics of negotiation Negotiators Science Community US major adversaries US commercial sector interest Coal 8essons learned .orld Environment Congress, 1288 Foreign Service views of OES work Kyoto Protocol 8ack of computerization Senator Al ore Malta European CommunityCEuropean Union (ECCEU, Robert Reinstein International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, Copenhagen Conference of the Parties, 2002 State Department% Policy Planning (SCP,% 8atin America 1223 8uigi Einaudi Comments on office State Department1 E0ecutive Director, OES Bureau 122851222 Staffing Problem of EGual Opportunity Discussion of core values in FS Information Technology -Black Bo0es/ Bureau of Verification and Compliance USIA Integration Other Bureau responsibilities 6 Robert ates analysis of national security Senior Seminar 122252000 Course structure and students -Developing Diplomats for 2010/ SOS Report (SOS Department of State, Department of State1 8iaison Officer with Hart5Rodman Commission 200152002 Operations Commissions finding and recommendation State Department1 Deputy Coordinator for Counter Terrorism (SCCT, 20025200E Euro5Terrorism Jerry Bremer Terrorist groups Moslem .orld Organization Saddam Hussein European terrorist groups IRA BasGues Osama bin 8aden Perceptions of State Dept. inadeGuacy IraG Opposition Act .eapons of Mass Destruction Intelligence and Research (INR, Sam Brinkley .ackenhut P5I Division Coordinator for Counter5Terrorism Cofer Black Operations Al Haeda use of internet and media Organization of American States (OAS, Counter Terrorism Committee (CICTE, Pan5Sahel Initiative English 8anguage Program US Military diplomatic preparation IraG Study roup Artic Council Charlie .ilson9s .ar Comments on US policy and activities in Middle East Retirement1 eneral comments on the Foreign Service 200E Impressions of Management Development -Mid5level Officers Financial Relief Act/ 8imiter Career E0tensions 3 Preparing for midstream diplomacy -Career development/ Professionalism in State Department Role of women in the Foreign Service Civil Service role Unified Diplomatic Service of the US Families in the Foreign Service ADDENDUM LUNCH BUNCH MEMORIES, by Maggie Moose INTERVIEW Q: Today is 25 March 2010. This is an interview with Stephanie Smith Kinney. Stephanie and I are old friends. And this is bein done on behalf of the Association for Diplomatic Studies, and I am Charles Stuart Kennedy. Stephanie, let's start at the be innin . (hen and where were you born) KINNEF1 In Orlando, Florida, because Mother didn9t like the doctors and the hospital in .inter Haven, which is where I really had my roots and grew up. Q: (hen) KINNEF1 June 2I, 12II. Q: You sound like a war baby. KINNEF1 Very much so. June 2I was a big day for the Smith family, but my father was not there because he was in Belgium (Battle of the Bulge, and later Cologne, ermany in .orld .ar II. At least that9s what his letters suggest. The story is that my mother caused problems at the hospital by not filling out a name because she was suppose too name me 5 5 as she was55 after my great5grandfather .illiam F. Eger, known to all as Billie. Thank Heavens, she opted for Carole Stephanie Smith. My father9s name was Charles Carroll Smith, so there would have been a feminized Carole Smith, in case he didn9t come back. Fortunately, he returned and I was allowed to become C. Stephanie Smith. Q: All ri ht, well let's take the family. Let's go on your father's side first, the Smith side. (here do they come from) (hat do you know about them) KINNEF1 They are of primarily French and English origins and are what give me the right to say I am a 1Eth generation American, depending on how you count it. Having started out in the Mid5Atlantic region well before the American Revolution, they came down from the area around Columbia, South Carolina, to Jefferson County and a little 8 little town in North Florida called
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