Diplomarine: Terrorism, Turf Wars, Cocktail Parties and Other Painful Joys My First Thirty Years of Foreign Affairs Paperback - 2014

DIPLOMARINE "patria ante politica" Timothy C. Brown, PhD, Consul General (ret.) Dr. Brown was a Marine from 1954 to 1964, a Foreign Service Officer (FSO) from 1955 to 1992, and has since been a scholar. 1956-60 he was a Marine Embassy Guard and Thai Intelligence/Linguist 1960-64. He served as a diplomat in Israel, Spain, Vietnam, Mexico, Paraguay, El Salvador, Amsterdam, as Paraguay/Uruguay Desk Officer, Deputy Director of European Political/Economic Affairs and Deputy Coordinator for Cuba Affairs in Washington, Consul General in Martinique and Senior Liaison to the Contras in Central America. He completed studies in Political Psychology, International Economics, Foreign Relations and History and received a PhD from New Mexico State in 1997. He is now a writer, university lecturer, researcher and conference speaker. While a Marine, Dr. Brown received numerous commendations and awards, some still classified. While an FSO he received three Meritorious and two Superior Honor Medals, a Citation for Heroism under fire and nomination for the National Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Award. He was the University of Nevada, Reno's Annual Distinguished Graduate in 1982 and inducted into his high school hall of fame in 2010. He has published four books, DIPLOMARINE (Amazon 2014); The Causes of Continuing Conflict in Nicaragua (Hoover, 1995); When the AK-47s Fall Silent (Hoover, 2000) and The Real Contra War (Oklahoma, 2001) and articles in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Journal of American Popular Culture, Policy Studies, International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, Wall Street Journal and Washington Times and been a speaker at conferences in Paris, Mexico City, The Hague, Lima, Washington, DC, Stanford University, the U.N. Peacekeeping Center in Canada, the Joint US Forces Special Operations College in Florida and aboard cruise ships. One of eighty-seven Marines profiled in Above and Beyond: Former Marines Conquer the Civilian World (Turner, 2003) alongside six Generals, three Senators, a former Secretary of State and thirty business leaders, he has also been listed in Who's Who Among American Teachers and Who's Who in the West. Married to the former Leda Ziga Fernandez of San Jos, Costa Rica since 1958, he has four children, eight grandchildren and five great grandchildren.