John M. Maury

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John M. Maury (1912-1983) was an Assistant Secretary of State during the US Presidency of Gerald Ford.[1]

He was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1912 and attended the University of Virginia, where he took a law degree in 1936.[1]

He served in the Central Intelligence Agency as an expert in the field of Soviet and East European intelligence.[1]

Maury was serving as a CIA Congressional liaison officer when he met with Senator Henry Jackson in February 1973.[2]

He was later appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs from 1974 to 1976.[1]

Maury died of Cancer in 1983, at the age of 71.[1]

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Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 JOHN M. MAURY, New York Times, 3 July 1983.
  2. Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.317.