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'''Henry Joseph Tasca''' (August 23, 1912 – August 22, 1979)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/index.html|title=Arlington National Cemetery Explorer|website=army.mil}}</ref><ref name="State1">{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/tasca-henry-joseph|title=Henry Joseph Tasca - People - Department History - Office of the Historian|website=history.state.gov}}</ref> was an [[United States of America|American]] [[diplomat]] during the 1960s and 1970s as well as an [[author]].
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Tasca was born in [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]], [[Rhode Island]]. He would get an undergraduate degree from [[Temple University]] and later receive both [[Master's degree|master's]] and [[Doctorate|doctoral]] degrees from the [[University of Pennsylvania]], although he did spend some time studying at the [[London School of Economics]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|title=H. J. Tasca Dies in Crash, Former Envoy to Greece|language=en-US|work=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/08/25/h-j-tasca-dies-in-crash-former-envoy-to-greece/29cf94bb-c5ba-413a-a517-5180e628a073/|access-date=2021-05-03|issn=0190-8286}}</ref>
He would also serve as an officer during [[World War II]], achieving the rank of [[Lieutenant commander (United States)|Lieutenant Commander]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|last=BITSIKA|first=PANAGIOTA|date=November 24, 2008|title=The American ambassadors to Athens|language=Greek|work=To Vima|url=https://www.tovima.gr/2008/11/24/culture/oi-amerikanoi-presbeytes-stin-athina/|access-date=May 3, 2021}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Arlington National Cemetery Explorer|url=https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/#/arlington-national/search/results/1/CgVUYXNjYRIFSGVucnk-/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-04|website=ancexplorer.army.mil|publisher=Arlington National Cemetery}}</ref>
== Political career ==
Tasca began his career at the [[United States Department of State|State Department]] in 1937 as an economic analyst. He went on to serve as the [[United States Department of the Treasury|Treasury Department's]] representative to the U.S. embassy in [[Rome]] from 1945 to 1948, and later took on a roll as adviser to Ambassador [[W. Averell Harriman]]. He would then be assigned to [[South Korea]] in 1953, before ultimately returning to [[Europe]].<ref name=":0" />
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In 1976 Tasca would be called before the [[House intelligence committee|House Intelligence Committee]] to provide off the record testimony during which he confirmed that the Greek Junta had made campaign contributions to the [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]]-[[Spiro Agnew|Agnew]] election fund.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hitchens|first=Christopher|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nk5tAAAAMAAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&q=%22Henry+Tasca%22&hl=en|title=Cyprus|date=1984|publisher=Quartet Books|isbn=978-0-7043-2436-7|language=en}}</ref>
[[File:Henry J. Tasca headstone.jpg|thumb|Gravestone of Henry Joseph Tasca, located at [[Arlington National Cemetery]]]]
== Death ==
Tasca died in an [[automobile accident]] near [[Lausanne]], [[Switzerland]] in August of 1979, another vehicle having collided into him at an intersection, while driving with his, then 15 year old, son John.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1979-08-25|title=HENRY J. TASCA DIES, EX‐U, S. AMBASSADOR|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/08/25/archives/henry-j-tasca-dies-exus-ambassador-66yearold-diplomat-is-killed-in.html|access-date=2021-05-03|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He was survived by his wife and five children, although one daughter had died before him.<ref name=":0" /> Tasca was buried in [[Arlington National Cemetery]].<ref name=":2" />
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