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John Alfred Scali (April 27 1918 – October 9 1995) was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 1973 to 1975. Scali was an ABC News reporter who became an intermediary in the Cuban Missile Crisis and later a part of the Nixon Administration. Scali gained fame after it became known in 1964 that in October 1962 a year after he joined ABC News he had carried a critical message from KGB Colonel Aleksandr Fomin to U.S. officials.