Edward Jackson (diplomat)

Sir John Edward Jackson KCMG (24 June 1925 – 8 May 2002) was a British diplomat and ambassador to Cuba and Belgium.

Demobbed in 1946 in the rank of sub-lieutenant, Jackson joined the Foreign Office the following year.

In 1956 Jackson was posted to Bonn to liaise between the Allied occupying forces and the embassy.

In 1969 he then spent six months at the NATO Defence College in Rome before going to Berlin as political adviser and Head of Chancery at the British Military Government.

As there was no American presence in Cuba Jackson went several times to Washington to brief the State Department, and George H. W. Bush when he was head of the CIA.