Posted on Thu, Nov. 10, 2005
THE NEW STATE DEPARTMENT TEAM ON CUBA
DAN FISK, 48, senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs, National Security Council
• Fisk helped draft the 1996 Helms-Burton Act as aide to Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms.
• He has worked as a Latin America specialist in the House International Relations Committee and the Department of Defense.
• In the 1980s, he was in the State Department's Bureau of Inter-American Affairs as deputy coordinator for Central American public diplomacy.
• He has a master's degree from Georgetown University and served in the conservative Heritage Foundation.
• Married, three children.
CALEB MCCARRY, 44, Cuba transition coordinator
• A former Latin America expert at the Center for Democracy, a now defunct bipartisan group that promoted democracy.
• In 1997, the then chairman of the House International Relations Committee, Rep. Ben Gillman (R-N.Y.), hired him to work as a committee staffer. Current chairman Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) appointed him the senior Latin America aide.
• Married, two children.
• His father, Charles, a former CIA agent, writes spy novels.
• Traveled to Cuba for Pope John Paul II's visit in 1998.
MICHAEL PARMLY, 54, chief of mission, U.S. Interests Section in Havana
• Before going to Havana, taught at the National War College, specializing in post-conflict situations.
• An expert on European and human rights issues.
• A native of St. Augustine, Fla., he is married to a Swiss citizen. They have two children.
STEPHEN MCFARLAND, 50, director of Cuban affairs
• A Latin American specialist who has served in Ecuador, Bolivia, El Salvador, and twice in Peru and Venezuela. He was last posted as deputy chief of mission in Caracas.
• A Texan who majored in economics at Yale, he is married and has four sons.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/cuba/13127646.htm
THE NEW STATE DEPARTMENT TEAM ON CUBA
DAN FISK, 48, senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs, National Security Council
• Fisk helped draft the 1996 Helms-Burton Act as aide to Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms.
• He has worked as a Latin America specialist in the House International Relations Committee and the Department of Defense.
• In the 1980s, he was in the State Department's Bureau of Inter-American Affairs as deputy coordinator for Central American public diplomacy.
• He has a master's degree from Georgetown University and served in the conservative Heritage Foundation.
• Married, three children.
CALEB MCCARRY, 44, Cuba transition coordinator
• A former Latin America expert at the Center for Democracy, a now defunct bipartisan group that promoted democracy.
• In 1997, the then chairman of the House International Relations Committee, Rep. Ben Gillman (R-N.Y.), hired him to work as a committee staffer. Current chairman Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) appointed him the senior Latin America aide.
• Married, two children.
• His father, Charles, a former CIA agent, writes spy novels.
• Traveled to Cuba for Pope John Paul II's visit in 1998.
MICHAEL PARMLY, 54, chief of mission, U.S. Interests Section in Havana
• Before going to Havana, taught at the National War College, specializing in post-conflict situations.
• An expert on European and human rights issues.
• A native of St. Augustine, Fla., he is married to a Swiss citizen. They have two children.
STEPHEN MCFARLAND, 50, director of Cuban affairs
• A Latin American specialist who has served in Ecuador, Bolivia, El Salvador, and twice in Peru and Venezuela. He was last posted as deputy chief of mission in Caracas.
• A Texan who majored in economics at Yale, he is married and has four sons.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/cuba/13127646.htm
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