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1 the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR THOMAS J. MILLER Interviewed by: Charles Stuart Kennedy Initial interview date: April 19, 2010 Copyright 2011 ADST TABLE OF CONTENTS Background Born in Illinois, raised in Illinois and Louisiana University of Michigan Field Studies in Thailand and Laos Army Volunteer Research study Joined the Foreign Service in 1976 State Department: Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) 197601977 South 1ast Asia analyst Operations .ational ntelligence 1stimates -. 1/ Philip Ha2i2 State Department, Special Assistant to the Undersecretary of State for 197701979 Political Affairs Operations Philip Ha2i2 Richard Hol2rooke American Foreign Service Association -AFSA/ David Ne3som ndochinese refugees 4eneva refugee Conference Soviet troops in Cu2a Chiang Mai, Thailand6 Vice Consul 197901981 Family Temporary assignments Refugee camps .on04overnment Organi8ations -.4Os/ Laos government .arcotics (oyce Po3ers murder Domino Theory 1 State Department, Political/Military Officer, sraeli0Palestine Affairs 198101983 Le2anon War Office personnel sraelis bom2 Osirak facility American (e3ish lo22y sraelis invade Le2anon Sa2ra and Shatila PLO State Department, Bureau of Congressional Affairs6 Middle 1ast 198301984 Marine barracks bom2ed -Temporary Duty/ Chief of Staff to Special 1nvoy to Middle 1ast, Donald Rumsfeld Staff mem2ers Le2anese government Syria Am2assador Reggie Bartholome3 ran0 raq War Barak Commission Begin resignation US Le2anon policy Soviets The 4emayels May 17, 1983 Agreement PLO King Hussein Am2assador Paganelli US troops in Le2anon 1uropean forces in Le2anon Hosni Mu2arak 4ulf States State Department, FS , 4reek language training 198401985 Athens, 4reece, Political Officer 198501987 Am2assador Ro2ert Keeley Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou Relations 4reek foreign policy US aid TWA 847 Terrorism and murders 4overnment 1nvironment Relations 3ith diplomatic corps 2 State Department, Director, Regional Office, Counterterrorism 198701989 Operations Aircraft bom2ings (erry Bremer Office organi8ation nter0Agency coordination srael Terrorist gangs Travel advisory lists 4reeks and terrorism Relations 3ith 4reek desk A2u Nidal 9/11 .orth Korea RA State Department, Director, Office of North African Affairs 198901992 King of Morocco US Am2assadors Voice of America -VOA/ Moroccan (e3s Consular protection cases Secretary of State 4eorge Schult8 Algerian elections Tunisia PLO Li2ya Pan Am 103 Badhafi Li2yan/US relations Am2assador Bill Wilson Chad 4ulf War Ara2 CstreetD vs. governments Soviets US oil interests Bar2ara Walters Badhafi intervie3 State Department, Director, Office of sraeli and Palestinian Affairs 199201994 sraeli housing loan guarantees Palestinian leadership 1nvironmental 3orking group Middle 1ast Nuclear Free Fone sraeli nuclear 3eapons sraeli/Capitol Hill connections 3 sraeli espionage Ara2ists Palestinian militant groups Palestinian state Ra2in sraeli parliament Russians in srael (ackson0Vanik Amendment Sharon A2u Nidal (ordan/ srael relations ntifada .or3ay secret talks Syria/ srael relations Hafe8 al0Assad and son Athens, 4reece, Deputy Chief of Mission 199401997 Am2assador Tom Niles Prime Minister and Mrs. Andreas Papandreou 4reece/Soviet relations US military bases Terrorism 4reece0Turkey island dispute Cyprus Political parties Turkish army US 4reek lo22y 4reek media US military assistance programs Macedonia Papandreo/Hol2rooke meeting 4reek parliament 4reek financial pro2lems US aid 1m2assy attacked Mem2er, Cyprus Negotiations Team 199701999 Turkish policy Rauf Denktas Richard Hol2rooke Clerides .ikos Sampson Cypriot Americans Cyprus 4reen Line Sovereignty issue 4 Am2assador to Bosnia0Her8egovina, 199902001 1lie Wiesel Dayton Accords Kosovo Military intervention Balkan War U. involvement Peace mplementation Council US aid to Bosnia USA D Russians Saudis Bosnia access to ports .ation02uilding issue Sre2renica Religious leaders 1thnic groups Hagganah Am2assador to 4reece 200102004 Prime Minister Costas Simitis Olympics Terrorism US policy mmigrants 4reek financial pro2lems 1uropean Union Turkey Al2ania Macedonia US military presence .ATO raq War resignations Pan0Hellenic Socialist Movement -PASOK/ Retirement 2004 Plan nternational, Chief 1xecutive Officer WifeHs career United Nations Association -U.A/ Projects and activities Dimitris Koufodinas case ndependent Diplomat Sudan INTERVIEW 5 Q: Today is the 19th of April 2010, with Thomas J. Miller. This is being done on the behalf of the Association of Diplomatic Studies and Training. And I am Charles Stuart Kennedy. Do you go by Tom? M LL1R, Tom, yes. Q: OK, Tom, let’s start at the beginning. When and where were you born? M LL1R, 3as born in Chicago on Decem2er 9, 1948. Q: Let’s talk about your family. What do you know about the Miller side, your father’s side of the family? M LL1R, Well, itHs a very small family. My dad 3as an only child, born in Detroit, had kind of an unhappy childhood. He 3as sent to military school in high school. Very tenacious. kne3 my grandparents pretty 3ell. Q: What were they up to? M LL1R, They 3ere from Detroit, and this is the hardcore, original Detroit. They moved on to Florida 3hen 3as a little kid, to St. Peters2urg. My grandfather o3ned a hard3are store. He 3as an accountant. He had gone to college. My dad had gone to college but never graduated6 this 3as during World War , so he dropped out of the University of Michigan. But my grandfather graduated from, think, the University of Detroit. And by the time 3as old enough to reali8e anything, they had moved to Florida and he opened a hard3are store 3ith his brother0in0la3, 3hich am told never really prospered. My grandmother 3as an extremely domineering, very take0charge, very bossy kind of person. We liked her, 3hen 3e 3ere young. have three other brothers, and so our memories are memories of childhood. And that 3as basically it. Q: How about on your mother’s side? Where did they come from? M LL1R, My mom is from Chicago. SheHs still alive. SheHs 86. My dad passed a3ay in 2000, 3hen he 3as 77. My mom had one brother. She 3as born to a very 3ell0to0do family in merchandi8ing, stuff like that. They had a really, really big company. And she gre3 up in Chicago, 3ent to private schools and all that kind of stuff. kne3 both my grandparents there. My granddad on that side passed a3ay think right before he 3as 60. And my grandmother passed a3ay 3hen she 3as 97, a2out 13 years ago. She 3as a very nice lady. remem2er her, o2viously, a lot better than remem2er my granddad. But he 3as a nice guy, from 3hat remem2er. Q: Did your mother go to college? 6 M LL1R, My mom 3ent to University of Michigan, and thatHs 3here she met my dad, and they both dropped out to get married 3hen my father enlisted. They got married in 1944 and they got divorced in 1976. Q: Did your father get involved in World War II? M LL1R, Ies, my dad 3as a tech sergeant in the Pacific. He did radio stuff. And if can just diverge for a second, read many, many years laterJit 3as actually right before 3ent over to Bosnia as am2assador in 1999J read The 4reatest 4eneration by Tom Broka3. And remem2er seeing my dad, and it turned out he lived in San Mateo at the time. After he divorced my mom, he remarriedJhe had been in love 3ith one person his entire life, and this 3as a (apanese 3oman, and he married her in 1977. And they lived happily ever after until they both died. But 3ent and sa3 my dad in 1999, and it turned out to be the last time ever sa3 him alive, right before 3ent to Bosnia. And had just read Broka3Hs book, and asked him, CWhy didnHt you ever talk a2out the 3arKD He 3as one of that generation that came back and just resumed their lives or got on 3ith their lives. And expected some dramatic ans3er and he said, CIou never asked.D He then proceeded for the next the hour and a half to talk, and my 3ife had a video and she took it all in. He told us a2out the 3arJand he 3as not a hero, he 3as just a normal grunt in the South Pacific. The sad thing is, 3hen he died, 3e 3ent to pull the video out to look at it and it had melted. So 3e donHt have that record. met Tom Broka3 in 2004, during the Olympics, and told him that story. He did a piece on me for a feature at the NBC Ne3s entitled CTough 4uy from Chicago.D 3as the am2assador there, and told him this story and he asked me to 3rite him a piece that he 3ould put in an additional, one of the further editions, but he never did. Q: Did you grow up in Chicago? M LL1R, gre3 up in Chicago for the first five yearsJactually, in the Chicago su2ur2s. Q: Where? M LL1R, Highland Park, 3hich is on the North Shore. think, 3hen 3as 2orn, Hm not sure 3e lived in Chicago. think the family lived in Highland Park or may2e had moved there very soon after 3as born. And then 3e moved to Ne3 Orleans for four years, so my dad couldJmy momHs family 3as very 3ealthy, and he 3anted to make his o3n mark. So he set out on his o3n to make his o3n mark in the import business, and 3e moved to Ne3 Orleans. And he joined a company and became a vice president eventually and did very 3ell. And then he 3ent back to Chicago after he had done his thing and sho3ed that he could do it himself. We moved back to 4lencoe, llinois, 3hich is one su2ur2 south of Highland Park. And thatHs 3here really gre3 up, in 4lencoe. Q: Do you remember when you were in New Orleans? This would be when you five, 7 about? M LL1R, Five to nine, think. Q: Do you remember growing up there? M LL1R, Ies, do. And Hll tell you, remem2er snippets. remem2er 3hat a kid that age remem2ers. But do remem2er segregation.
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