Alphonse F. La Porta (born January 15, 1939)[1] a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, served as U.S.

Subsequently, he served as the Political Advisor to the U.S. Commander-in-Chief of the Regional Headquarters Allied Forces in southern Europe from January 2001 to November 2003.

He finished his enlistment in 1963 and began to pursue his Ph.D. at Georgetown University when he was recruited to work at the National Security Agency.

In this position he attested to the passport application of Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, mother of President Barack H. Obama.

From 1985 to 1987 La Porta served in the State Department's Office of Management Operations, then moved on to be Deputy Chief of Mission in U.S. Embassy Wellington, New Zealand from 1987 to 1991.

La Porta's Washington-based assignments included working in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs as director of the Office of Cambodian Genocide Investigation, executive assistant to the president's special representative for the Philippine economic reform, and as deputy director of the Office of Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore Affairs.