John M. Maury
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]
Maury visited the Soviet Union prior to World War Two, during which he served in the Moscow Embassy representing the Office of Naval Intelligence.[2]
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 special assistant to Allen Dulles in the early 1950s, when Dulles asked him to join the clandestine service and train for a mission to Moscow.[2]
Maury was serving as a CIA Congressional liaison officer when he met with Senator Henry Jackson in February 1973.[3]
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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