John A. Scali, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John A. Scali

American diplomat

Date of Birth: 27-Apr-1918

Place of Birth: Canton, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 09-Oct-1995

Profession: diplomat, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

John Alfred Scali (April 27, 1918 – October 9, 1995) was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 1973 to 1975.
From 1961 he was also a long time correspondent for ABC News. As a correspondent for ABC, Scali became an intermediary during the Cuban Missile Crisis and later a part of the Nixon Administration.
Scali gained fame after it became known in 1964 that in October 1962, a year after he joined ABC News, he had carried a critical message from KGB Colonel Aleksandr Fomin (the cover name for Alexander Feklisov) to U.S.
officials.
He left ABC in 1971 to serve as a foreign affairs adviser to President Nixon, becoming U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations in 1973.
Scali re-joined ABC in 1975 where he worked until retiring in 1993. Scali was contacted by Soviet embassy official (and KGB Station Chief) Fomin about a proposed settlement to the crisis, and subsequently he acted as a contact between Fomin and the Executive Committee.
However, it was without government direction that Scali responded to new Soviet conditions with a warning that a U.S.
invasion was only hours away, prompting the Soviets to settle the crisis quickly.