Ernest Latham

About The Author

Ernest H. Latham, Jr. is an American historian specialized on modern Romania. After service as an officer in the U. S. Coast Guard, he entered the American Foreign Service. His early assignments were in the Middle East but thereafter serving in Central and Eastern Europe, including the years 1983-7 in Bucharest, Romania, as the American cultural attaché. After retiring in 1993 he returned to Romania as a Fulbright professor for two years in 2000. His doctorate is from the University of Bucharest.

Books by Ernest Latham

Targeted as a Spy

Surveillance of an American Diplomat in Communist Romania

By Ernest Latham
This book is a collection of surveillance reports that Dr. Latham obtained from the Romanian archives following the collapse of the Communist regime. They reveal the extent of the surveillance to which Western diplomats were subjected and, more importantly, they reveal a great deal about the syst...
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