Harry E. Bergold Jr.; Former U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua

Harry E. Bergold Jr., 83, a diplomat whose career was derailed after he served as ambassador to Sandinista-controlled Nicaragua. Bergold served in Nicaragua from 1984 to 1987, providing journalists with information that led to the disclosure of the U.S. government’s covert funding of guerrillas fighting the leftist regime there. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan nominated him to be ambassador to Morocco, but conservative senators blocked the appointment, and Bergold retired from the foreign service, which he had joined in 1957. He moved to Vienna, where he was a visiting lecturer at the Institute for European Studies. In Paris on Tuesday of cancer.