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In 1987, the United States and the Soviet Union signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which required both parties to eliminate all nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with a certain striking range. This wing tip is from a ground-launched cruise missile destroyed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in…
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East German flag given to Foreign Service Officer Paul Denig, circa 1993, in gratitude for re-training Russian teachers into English teachers at the Teacher’s College of Magdeburg, Germany.
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Ambassador Robert G. Neumann was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1916. He studied diplomacy at the University of Vienna, the University of Rennes, and at the Geneva School of International Studies. During his studies in Geneva, he was imprisoned by the Nazis and sent to a concentration camp. After his release, Neumann…
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This set of Russian nesting dolls, also known as matryoshka dolls, depicts U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Robert S. Strauss and various Soviet officials. Ambassador Strauss served first as ambassador to the Soviet Union (1991) and then became the ambassador to Russia (1991-1992) after the Soviet Union ceased to be. Foreign…
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U.S. Marine Security Guards have worked for more than six decades to protect and safeguard people, property, and sensitive information at U.S. embassies and consulates around the world. More than 1,000 officers and enlisted U.S. Marines have been trained for this duty and are assigned to the Marine Corps Embassy Security Group.…
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White porcelain medallion with bas-relief of Brandenburg Gate and “BERLIN”. Gift to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from German Foreign Minister Dr. Guido Westerwelle, at NATO meetings, April 13-15, 2011.
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These credentials were used by Foreign Service Officer Melvin Arakaki while observing the Georgian Parliamentary elections in 2003. After receiving an invitation from Georgia, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) deployed an election observation mission to monitor the 2003 Georgian elections.…
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Three framed exequaturs signed by Indonesian President Soeharto (Suharto), belonging to a family of U.S. Foreign Service Officers: father Robert Slutz (1970), daughter Pamela Slutz (1986), and husband Ronald Deutch (1986). An exequatur is a formal document signed by a country’s leader that recognizes the appointment of a foreign diplomat to serve…
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This Foreign Service Commission dated March 25, 1991, promoted Ryan C. Crocker to the rank of Minister-Counselor in the Foreign Service. While Crocker was serving as ambassador to Syria in 1998, rioters broke into his official residence, causing significant damage and leaving this commission soiled and damaged.
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At the 2015 GLACIER Conference hosted by the U.S. Department of State in Anchorage, Alaska, Secretary of State John Kerry received this steel dish designed in the shape of the Vatnajökull ice cap as a gift from Iceland’s Foreign Minister, Gunnar Bragi Sveinson. The Vatnajökull ice cap is the largest in Europe…
