>https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09ASTANA373_a.html
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_E._Hoagland
Diplomatic Justice in KAZAKHSTAN ~ 2009
>Classified [SECRET] By: Ambassador Richard E. Hoagland
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(S) SUMMARY: Following the conclusion of his criminal trial in Ridder on February 26, Peace Corps Volunteer Anthony Sharp was sentenced to two years in prison on explosives charges – and taken away in handcuffs straight to jail. The Ambassador immediately raised this development with senior Kazakhstani officials, including Foreign Minister Tazhin, explaining that Sharp's imprisonment violated the Kazakhstani government's commitment to us that Sharp would be given a suspended sentence and deported. On February 27, Tazhin promised the Ambassador that through the judicial appeals process, Kazakhstan would follow through on its original commitment within 30 days, so long as we are able to keep the case out of the media. Based on a written request from the Ambassador, a Ridder judge ordered Sharp released from jail on February 27, but denied our request that he be allowed to leave Ridder and travel to Astana. Tazhin made clear to the Ambassador on March 2 that he had had to push back very hard against the Committee for National Security (KNB). He also said the Ambassador should immediately request a meeting with President Nazarbayev to apologize for the incident and express our gratitude that Kazakhstan is resolving it. The Ambassador has been in touch Sharp and with both of his parents. They agreed to keep the case out of the press. Sharp's lawyers are planning to file a formal appeal no later than March 13. END SUMMARY.
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Richard Eugene Hoagland (born 1950, Fort Wayne, Indiana)[1] is a career ambassador in the United States Department of State. He was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in State's Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, 2013-2015.[2] In the summer of 2016, based at the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan, he was the senior U.S. liaison to the Russian Reconciliation Center at the Russian military base in Latakia, Syria. In 2017 he served as interim U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, the group appointed by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to coordinate international peacemaking efforts on the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.[3]
From January 2011 to October 2013, he was the United States Deputy Ambassador to Pakistan,[2] a title rarely used by State, but which has been used in other countries where the U.S. has a difficult diplomatic mission (notably in Embassy of the United States, Kabul as currently structured [4] and in the structure of the U.S. mission to South Vietnam in the 1960s[5]). The title Deputy Ambassador carries more political responsibility and weight than the more common title of Deputy Chief of Mission.
Before Ambassador Hoagland's service in Pakistan, he was the U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan from 2008 to January 2011. He previously served as the Ambassador to Tajikistan 2003–06, and as the Chargé d'affaires to Turkmenistan July 2007-July 2008.[2]
Prior to that, Ambassador Hoagland was Director of the Office of Caucasus and Central Asian Affairs in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Department of State, June 2001-July 2003. In that position, he wrote and negotiated four of the key bilateral documents defining the Central Asian states' enhanced relationship with the United States. After September 11, 2001, he initiated regular U.S.-Russia consultations in response to the mandate by Presidents Bush and Putin that the two governments work together to increase their collaboration and transparency in Central Asia and the Caucasus. In July 2002, this consultative group became part of the ongoing U.S.-Russia Counterterrorism Working Group.[2]
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>spooks for days…