Archer Blood
American diplomat
Died when: 81 years 167 days (977 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Archer Kent Blood (March 20, 1923 – September 3, 2004) was an American career diplomat and academic.He served as the last American Consul General to Dhaka, Bangladesh (East Pakistan at the time).
He is famous for sending the strongly worded "Blood Telegram" protesting against the atrocities committed in the Bangladesh Liberation War.
He also served in Greece, Algeria, Germany, Afghanistan and ended his career as charge d'affaires of the U.S.Embassy in New Delhi, India, retiring in 1982.
Related People
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License