Thursday, November 22, 2007

Henry Ensher

Henry Ensher, whose diplomatic cover at Jeddah in 1987 was "Political Officer", has had a full career.

After Jeddah, he went on to Muscat in Oman; the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research in Washington; Damascus, Syria as Economic/Commercial Officer (1995); Governance Counselor, Coalition Provisional Authority, Qadisiyah Province, Iraq, 2003; and the CIA Station in Baghdad 2004-2005 (as Deputy Political Counselor).

(Unconfirmed reports have also placed him in the Kabul, Afghanistan Station.)

He is currently living in McLean, Virginia.

His new position is Director of Political Affairs at the State Department's Iraq Office.

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As Political Officer, he demanded visas for peculiar people.

Transferred to Oman and later to the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence & Research, he is currently assigned to Kabul.

He is listed in the McLean, Va. phone book.

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Ensher appears several places on the 'net but you have to look for him.


Henry Ensher. As Political Officer, he demanded visas for peculiar people. Transferred to Oman and later to the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, he is currently assigned to Kabul.

He is listed in the McLean, Va. phone book.

NameBase.org lists Henry Ensher under State Dept. Key Officers of Foreign Service Posts, Syria 1994.


Ensher is (or was) deputy to Robert Ford, political counsellor at the Baghdad Embassy.


November 11, 2001,
Henry Ensher, head of the UN Sanctions (vs. Iraq) at the State Department