My Uncle’s Experiences as a Foreign Service Officer Overseas

Before he retired, my uncle John Cogdill worked as a foreign service officer at US embassies.  “I was what’s called a criminal investigator. Sort of like an FBI agent-but for the Foreign aid program,” he tells me over zoom call from his house in Bethesda, Maryland. “And so we had to find out if people were trying to steal our money by bribing people to … Continue reading My Uncle’s Experiences as a Foreign Service Officer Overseas