Frederick Vreeland

Career In 1951 Vreeland became an Operations Officer with the Central Intelligence Agency and served until 1985. During that time, his foreign service diplomatic assignments were: Economic Officer, U.S. Mission to the UN European Office (1952–1957); Economic Officer, U.S. Mission to West Berlin (1957–1960); Political Officer, U.S. Embassy Bonn, West Germany (1960–1963); Member, National Security Council, at the White House (1963); Economic Officer, U.S. Embassy Rabat, Morocco (1963–1967); Political Officer, United States Mission to the United Nations (1967–1971); Political Officer, Embassy of the United States, Paris (1971–1978); and Political Officer, Embassy of the United States, Rome (1978–1985). He also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near East/South Asia affairs between February 1991 and February 1992. but his nomination was not acted upon by the United States Senate and he instead served as ambassador to Morocco, taking up the appointment in 1991.

Vreeland was part of a team of acting and public-speaking coaches assembled in Rome to prepare the inexperienced Sofia Coppola for a difficult scene in her father Francis's The Godfather Part III. In 2005, while living in retirement in Rome, Vreeland urged senators not to confirm John Bolton as U.S ambassador to the United Nations, saying he had no diplomatic bone in his body and was unworthy of their trust.