My Career as U.S. Consul and Diplomat

About the Book

This volume reviews highlights of the author’s twenty-eight-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service while he served in Romania, Italy, Poland, and Washington, as elicited in a multi-session conversation with the founder of the Foreign Affairs Oral History Program. Historians and other readers may find of particular interest Bastiani’s account and analysis of developments while he was head of the U.S. consulate in Krakow before, during, and immediately after the imposition of martial law.

About the Author

Alfred H. Moses, a former partner and now senior counsel at Covington & Burling, LLP, Washington, is a co-founder and chief operating officer of Promontory Financial Group and affiliates in Washington. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Romania, 1994-97, and as the President’s Special Emissary for the Cyprus conflict from 1999-2001. In the Carter administration Ambassador Moses served as special counsel and special advisor to the President and was Lead Counsel to the President in the Billygate hearings. From 1976 to 1989 he negotiated the exodus to Israel of Jews from Communist Romania. An honorary national president of the American Jewish Committee, Ambassador Moses presently serves as Chair of UN Watch (Geneva), the Project on Ethnic Relations, the AJC National Advisory Council and in 2006 chaired AJC’s 100th Anniversary Committee