 In 1989, Basora joined the White House staff as Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council, participating in reshaping U.S. policy after the fall of the Berlin Wall.He organized a high-level presidential mission to Poland to highlight U.S. support for post-Communist governments in Eastern Europe and helped design and launch U.S. and multilateral assistance programs to fund rapid economic transformation of former Soviet Bloc states.After a brief stint as a research associate at the Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs at the Foreign Service Institute, he was selected as U.S.