 He became VOA policy officer in 1956 and was acting television manager for the VOA in 1957.His diplomatic career from 1954 through 1967 took him to U.S. missions in Iran, France, Egypt, and India during seminal historic events, including the Shah of Iran’s wedding in 1959 and the bombing of the Cairo airport at the beginning of the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War in 1967.He acted as a Foreign Service Inspector from 1958-1972.