[3] The Corps were assigned to build secret bases in Morocco amid fears that the Soviet Union would invade Europe during the Korean War.

[2] In this position, Condon got to know and work with Mahjoub Ben Seddik, a major figure in Moroccan labor union history.

[4] In his early career as an FSO, Condon served tours as labor officers in Tunis, Algiers, Saigon, and Beirut.

Condon's time in Saigon was shortly after the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem during the Vietnam War, which complicated his work.

[9] The embassy's consular district was the largest in the Foreign Service at the time, covering Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu, New Hebrides, French Polynesia, Kiribati, and New Caledonia.

[10] Condon was optimistic about interracial and interethnic cooperation upon leaving Fiji, but this proved to be an unstable conclusion as 1987 saw two military coups due to indigenous and Indo-Fijian tension.