Charles Warren Hostler

Charles Warren Hostler (December 12, 1919–September 28, 2014 San Diego, California)[1] was the American Ambassador to Bahrain from 1989–1993, as a political appointee.[2] He also served as a colonel in the United States Air Force, an executive with McDonnell Douglas and adjunct professor of political science at San Diego State University.[1]

Biography

Hostler earned a Legion of Merit award from the U.S. and a French Legion of Honor as a result of his service in World War II as a military intelligence officer. He credits his tenure at the Office of Strategic Services (OSS, the forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency) with teaching him "how to survive and helped me excel".[1]

He joined the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) to help pay for college at UCLA. He went on active duty when he graduated in 1942. He worked for the OSS, in part because he was fluent in French. He was assigned to work with the French resistance and root out collaborators. He landed at Utah Beach on D-Day. When Paris was liberated, he went to Romania to smuggle out pro-democracy leaders. In the early days of the Cold War, he "helped train the air intelligence unit of the Turkish military and also served as U.S. military attache in Lebanon, Jordan and Cyprus."[1]

Stateside, he continued his education, earning a master's and doctorate in political science from Georgetown University and a master’s in Middle Eastern studies from the American University in Beirut. Hostler also served as a long-time public member appointee to San Diego County's Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) and served as their Chair in overseeing the incorporation of Poway and Santee, which were subsequently approved by voters in 1980. Hostler lived in Coronado, California with his wife when he died from cardiac arrest at a San Diego naval hospital.[1]

References
  1. Perry, Tony (October 15, 2014). "Charles Hostler dies at 94; OSS agent who worked with French resistance". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  2. "Charles,Warren Hostler". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
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