Frederick Vreeland
Frederick Dalziel Vreeland is an American diplomat and writer. He is the son of fashion editor Diana Vreeland and the banker Thomas Reed Vreeland.Career
He was nominated in 1990 as United States Ambassador to Burma, however his nomination was not acted upon by the United States Senate. He instead served as ambassador to Morocco. From 1951–1985, Vreeland served as an Operations Officer with the Central Intelligence Agency. During that time, Vreeland had the following bona fide foreign service diplomatic assignments: Political Officer, US Embassy Rome, Italy ; Political Officer, US Embassy Paris, France ; Political Officer, US Mission to the United Nations ; Economic Officer, US Embassy Rabat, Morocco ; Member, National Security Council, The White House ; Political Officer, US Embassy Bonn, West Germany ; Economic Officer, US Mission to West Berlin ; and, Economic Officer, US Mission to the UN European Office. In the Summer of 1963 he served temporarily as a member of the US National Security Agency in Washington, DC. in order to brief President John F. Kennedy in preparation for the latter's visit to Berlin in June 1963. At Kennedy's request, during one of the last of these briefings, he invented the phrase "Ich bin ein Berliner" and carefully taught the president how to pronounce those German words. This is confirmed by the Kennedy Memorial Library.
