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Greenlee, David N The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR DAVID N. GREENLEE Interviewed by: Stuart Kennedy Initial interview date: January 19, 2007 Copyright 2009 A ST TABLE OF CONTENTS Background Born and raised in New York Yale University% Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies Peace Corps, Bolivia 196,-196. Marriage US Army, /ietnam 0ntered the Foreign Service in 19.1 2ima, Peru% 3otation Officer 19.1-19.6 Socialist revolution /isas 4overnment 0nvironment on-Aligned conference Chile Foreign communities State Department% Operations Center 19.6-19.. Duties State Department% Acting Desk Officer for Honduras 19.. 4oals and Objectives paper 2a Pa6, Bolivia% Political Officer 19..-19.9 Political turbulence 0lections Military Coups Communism Universities Family connections Population 2ocal culture Human 3ights 1 3elations with neighbors Operation Condor Mining Tel Aviv, Israel% Political Officer 1980-1982 4a6a reporting 3ange of reporting issues 3elations with Consulate 4eneral :erusalem Ambassador Brandon 4rove Camp David Accords 3esolution 212 0nvironment Settlements 4overnment US support for Israel Israeli attitude towards US officials Israeli self-reliance Congressional Interest Israel ;take-out“ Iranian nuclear reactor Israeli nuclear capability Invasion of 2ebanon Sinai withdrawal 0gypt relations Sharon State Department% Office of Israeli-Arab Affairs (IAI) 1982-1981 Issues Utili6ation of Marines in 2ebanon Camp David 3eagan initiative Shult6 ;quality of life“ initiative Workload of Office of IAI Taba issue Dispute 3esolution Mechanism State DepartmentA Deputy Director, Office of 0gyptian Affairs 1981-1986 3elations with 0gypt Mubarak Multilateral Force and Observers Achille 2auro Badhafi US assistance programs 0gypt and the Arab World Iraq-Iran war ational War College 1986-198. 2 2a Pa6, Bolivia% Deputy Chief of Mission 198.-1989 President /ictor Pa6 0stenssoro Cocaine production 0conomy Corruption Crop substitution program Mining Politics Military Drugs 0nforcement Agency (D0A) 0nvironment Santiago, ChileA Deputy Chief of Mission 1989-1992 0lections US policy 4overnment 0nvironment Population Military Antarctica visit Beagle Channel Islands Fruit 2etelier assassination Human rights Patent law Pinochet Colonia Dignidad Political parties Madrid, Spain% Deputy Chief of Mission 1992-199, 3elations US military bases Barcelona Olympics 0nvironment 0mbassy staff US ambassadors Public relations Monarchy US-Spain Chamber of Commerce Basques separatist 4overnment Catalan SpainDs interest in Mid 0ast Peace process Polisario Morocco C Cuba Spanish daily routine The Pentagon% Political Advisor to the Army Chief of Staff 199,-1996 Duties and responsibilities Pinochet 3ussians Budget State Department% Chair, Israel-Arab /iolations Negotiating 1996-199. 4roup Complaints of violations at 3ash Ha- igra 4roup composition French component Problems aqura meeting U eEclusion Firing mission violations Syrian influence Cyprus base He6bollah 2ebanese Army 2ebanon-Syria problem Special Coordinator for Haiti 199.-1999 US military presence President 3enF Preval US politics Haitian congress Opposing Haitian factions US ambassadors Aristide Congressional interest Problems Black Caucus Congressional testimony US interests in Haiti 3oger oriega Haitian environment Dominican 3epublic Ambassador to Paraguay 1999-200C 4uarani language Country description Mennonites 3eligion 1 Contraband 3elations 4overnment President 4on6ale6 Macchi Business practices 0nvironment US interests Security Media Bra6il relationship Peace Corps Ambassador to Bolivia 200C-2006 US assistance 3elations President Sanche6 de 2o6ada 4overnment IMF recommendations 4as production and ownership 2ocal press Wife 0conomy Presidential 0lections Buispe Political parties Opposition activities President Mesa Coca production Political personalities 0vo Morales Cocaine Morales anti-US stance INTERVIEW ": Today is the 19th of January 2007. This is an interview with David N. Greenlee (hat does N stand for) 4300 200A Nicol. ": You didn+t get into the ,leigh.- 4300 200A IDm not sure. Maybe way back it was ;leigh.“ , ": You go by David. Let+s start at the beginning. (hen and where were you born) 4300 200A I was born in White Plains, New York, :une C, 191C. ": Let+s tal/ first about your family. Let+s ta/e your father+s side. (here did the family come from originally) 4300 200A I donDt have detailed knowledge of my fatherDs roots. My fatherDs father came out of Philadelphia. He was born in Pennsylvania. My father was part Irish, part 4erman, and I think part Scots-Irish as well. ": If you can go bac/ a bit, on your father+s side, do you /now what your great2 grandparents were involved in) 4300 200A I only know as far back as my grandfather, who died when I was about seven years old. My grandfather was in real estate and was a gambler in real estate, and I think a gambler in horses. He made a great deal of money before the depression. He was said to be a very colorful guy, a sharp dresser, somebody who people around him liked a great deal. I think he had a fairly tense marriage with my grandmother, who was very strong-willed. She had a 4erman background. My father was their only son. After my grandfather died, my grandmother came to live with us. ": (ith a German grandmother and the only son, was she the fuehrer) 4300 200A She was very assertive. She was bright, but not very well educated, no college. She was a strong presence in our family when I was growing up. 2ooking back, I reali6e that I carry some of her opinionsHbiasesHtoday. There was often an angle to her comments and views that was destructive and created collateral damage in her personal relationships. She liked to play against type. For eEample, she was of pure 4erman descent but was prone to say things like the 4ermans ;started all the wars“ and every 4erman male should be ;castrated.“ She said this kind of stuff in front of 4ermans. She was particularly vivid in condemning the holocaust. She liked to say she contributed to Hadassah, the :ewish womenDs charitable organi6ation, although she was not :ewish. From time to time, though, she would let slip in an anti-Semitic comment. At the same time she was a strong supporter of human and civil rights, at least in the abstract. That influenced me greatly. ": How would you describe your father+s upbringing) 4300 200A For most of his youth, I think, his family was quite well-to-do, and as an only child he was doted on. He grew up in a Philadelphia Main 2ine community and attended a prep school called St. 2ukeDs, which later merged with or became the Haverford School. The family had a small yacht, a motorboat large enough to have a captain, and my father cruised to Maine a couple of summers. He went on to Williams College and Harvard 2aw School. As a young lawyer he was with the firm of Donovan 6 and 2iege, and from there was recruited for the Office of Strategic Service during World War II. ": (ild Bill Donovan. 4300 200A Yes. My father was sent behind :apanese lines in Siam (now Thailand). His eEploits were written up in a couple of books. One was Sub 3osa, by Stewart Alsop. My father never talked about what he did, but I understood from what I read that he was involved in setting up a guerrilla network from the Iing 3egentDs palace in Bangkok. The Iing 3egent was nominally with the :apanese but actually with us. My father was commissioned as a major in the U.S. Army and awarded a bunch of U.S. and Siamese medals. To me he was a heroic but sort of distant figure. He stayed involved with the intelligence community in some fashion until he died in 196,. For eEample, one of his law clients was 3adio Free 0urope, and he traveled frequently to Munich. My father loved being a lawyer, but in the decade after the war he tried to branch into other things. He got involved with an oil-drilling venture, for eEample, and we used to have a bottle of the oil that his company pulled up in our pantry. It was probably the only oil. He also bought and ran, with my grandmotherDs help, a sports car outlet in White Plains called Shamrock Motors. After that he got into 4erman cars through a law client who was the distributor for Mercedes Ben6 in Bra6il. We had a 220 S and a C00 S2 gull wing coup, today a real classic. ": I had a 180. 4300 200A We had a 180, too. That was our first one. ": That was a sort of ta6i. 4300 200A Yes, small but boEy. My father loved cars. When he had the dealership he used to run a supercharged M4 TF at the track in 2ime 3ock, Connecticut. He didnDt drive it himself, but it was part of his identity. ": It was also an era of sports cars. They were much more around then. 4300 200A The British ones were particularly stylish and part of their appeal was that they were rough and wet in the rain. BA The open thing. And it had luggage straps all over the treads and that sort of thing. 4300 200A The other thing about that time was a house my father bought, I think largely with my grandmotherDs money, in Bay Head, New :ersey. It was a large summer cottage, without central heat. My grandmother presided over the house from May through September and we spent our summers there for a number of years. I was an avid sailor, racing a small planing hull called a :et 11 as much as three times a week. I was the junior national champion of that class in 1961. My father was not a sailor. His eEperience was . with motorboats. But through me he became interested in sailing and towards the end of his life acquired a 28foot sloop, which we sailed together for several summers. We would go off shore through the Mannesquan Inlet and, in the fall and spring, we would sail from 2archmont, New York, up and down 2ong Island Sound, as far as Newport and Block Island, 3hode Island.
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