Viron P. Vaky

Who is Viron P. Vaky?

Viron Peter Vaky was a diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Costa Rica, Colombia, and Venezuela. He was a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and Council on Foreign Relations.

Military service: US Army

University: BS, Georgetown University University: MA, University of Chicago Professor: Georgetown University

US Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs US Ambassador to Venezuela US Ambassador to Colombia US Ambassador to Costa Rica US National Security Council American Academy of Diplomacy Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Council on Foreign Relations Inter-American Dialogue

Documents declassified and made available in 2013 show that in September 1970, when Vaky was the top deputy to Henry Kissinger, Vaky took a stand against Kissenger's plan to overthrow Salvador Allende who was the democratically elected president of Chile. According to the account published on the National Security Archive, Vaky wrote a memo to Kissinger arguing that coup plotting would lead to "widespread violence and even insurrection." He also argued that such a policy was immoral: "What we propose is patently a violation of our own principles and policy tenets .