Elbridge Durbrow (September 21, 1903 – May 16, 1997) was a Foreign Service officer and diplomat who served as the Counselor of Embassy.
Anderson deputy Chief of Mission in Moscow in the late 1940s and then the US ambassador to South Vietnam from March 1957 to April 1961.
The originally supported the Diem regime until the fall 1960, when he reported that its control was slipping and that unless steps were taken to reform the government Diem would be likely overthrown in a coup, or lose the country to the Vietcong.
Diem and his American supporters work to get Durbrow transferred, and he was recalled by President John F.
Kennedy in 1961, and sent to a diplomatic role with NATO in Europe.