Internet, alt.obituaries, 2004-09-23
Information trouvée : décès 2004 : Archer Kent Blood, 81, a career diplomat whose Blood Telegram denouncing
the complicity of the United States in "genocide" in the former East Pakistan prompted
his recall from his post as consul general in Dhaka, died Sept. 3 of arterial sclerosis
at a hospital in Fort Collins, Colo. Mr. Blood served for 35 years in the State Department,
with postings in Greece, Algeria, Germany, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and India. He served
as a naval officer in the North Pacific during World War II, and joined the Foreign
Service in 1947. During the last decade of his career in the Foreign Service, he was
acting ambassador to Afghanistan and served two terms as charge d'affaires of the
U.S. Embassy in New Delhi. He retired in 1982. After his retirement, which he called
"self-imposed exile," he was a diplomatic adviser to the commandant at the U.S. Army
War College in Carlisle, Pa. Mr. Blood wrote the 2002 book "The Cruel Birth of Bangladesh:
Memoirs of an American Diplomat" and was professor emeritus of political science at
Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa.
The cruel birth of Bangladesh : memoirs of an American diplomat / Archer K. Blood,
2002
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