1953 Iranian coup d'état event
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Kermit Roosevelt carried_out_attack
1953 Iranian coup d'état book_quoted
“And not only this book, but I told you in the book, The Determined Spy about Frank Wisner, he was intimately involved in the planning with Kermit Roosevelt of the Iran coup. And he talks about it a lot. I mean, he goes into detail about the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 1:05:49
Allen Dulles carried_out_attack
1953 Iranian coup d'état book_quoted
“of the CIA. The Shah is living in a dream world, Henderson remarked later. He seems to think his restoration was due entirely to his popularity. He knew better. Dulles would look back on the coup in Iran as one of the two greatest triumphs …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 34:46
Kermit Roosevelt carried_out_attack
1953 Iranian coup d'état book_quoted
“where he was the CIA station chief, Egypt, Lebanon, Iran, and Iraq. What do those all have in common? We've cooed them all. While working at Booz Allen Hamilton, Copeland was involved in the 1953 overthrow of Mossadegh, because of course he…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 23:04
Kermit Roosevelt carried_out_attack
1953 Iranian coup d'état host_asserted
“fake intelligence that says Mossadegh is a communist. Iran's right next to the Soviet Union. Oh my God, they've got to him. We've got to get him out of office. Do I believe that you could have operated as Kermit Roosevelt did in the cooing …”
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Kermit Roosevelt carried_out_attack
1953 Iranian coup d'état documented
“What does that sound like? That sounds exactly like stay-behind units under the guise of a commercial deal, Overseas Consultants Inc., which Kermit was buried in, in order to set up stay-behind units in Iran so they could overthrow the gove…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 22:25
CIA funded
1953 Iranian coup d'état book_quoted
“would give his left you-know-what, well, let's just say index finger, Roosevelt said, if he could go somewhere in the field and engineer the coup himself. Dulles' handiwork could also be seen in the compliant U.S. press covering the regime …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 35:39
Miles Copeland carried_out_attack
1953 Iranian coup d'état book_quoted
“where he was the CIA station chief, Egypt, Lebanon, Iran, and Iraq. What do those all have in common? We've cooed them all. While working at Booz Allen Hamilton, Copeland was involved in the 1953 overthrow of Mossadegh, because of course he…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 23:04
Richard Nixon overthrew
1953 Iranian coup d'état host_asserted
“The coup that was launched against Mossadegh in Iran, destabilizing that country, and it's still a mess today. He also oversaw the coup in Guatemala while he was vice president. He was a sitting member of the national security staff that di…”
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Frank Wisner carried_out_attack
1953 Iranian coup d'état book_quoted
“And not only this book, but I told you in the book, The Determined Spy about Frank Wisner, he was intimately involved in the planning with Kermit Roosevelt of the Iran coup. And he talks about it a lot. I mean, he goes into detail about the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 1:05:49
Rockefeller benefited_from
1953 Iranian coup d'état host_asserted
“The Iranian one in 53 benefited them because Standard Oil got 34% of the concession for picking up the phone and calling Allen Dulles and telling him to overthrow Mossadegh. So it's just literally crazy. Literally crazy. All right. Well, th…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 1:06:45
C.D. Jackson headed
1953 Iranian coup d'état host_asserted
“It's kind of an interest of mine. Given his role in the 1953 OCD heading that enabled all the crazy shit that is totally undocumented by and large, and also culminating in the control of the Zaputa film, The Weekend of the JFK Assassination…”
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Mentions (70)
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The United States. When Panama was overthrown, who was the very first government that recognized the new Panamanian president after they stole it from Colombia? The United States. When we overthrew Iran, who was the very first one that reco…
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international businesses who control internal operations of countries that they either have investments in or they want control of natural resources in those countries. That can be borne out by one of the initial operations done under this …
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The coup that was launched against Mossadegh in Iran, destabilizing that country, and it's still a mess today. He also oversaw the coup in Guatemala while he was vice president. He was a sitting member of the national security staff that di…
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of Iran, they basically overrun the palace. He gets away. He gets locked up for the rest of his life under house arrest. And they basically reinstate the Shah, who was part of the whole coup to begin with. And if you remember, that's when I…
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is the one that came in and basically convinced the Shah to go along with it. And he's the one that set up the Savak, which is kind of their secret police. So Iran at the time was a puppet government of the CIA too. So anybody else have any…
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because they have Rana assassins down there. But anyway, yeah, it's crazy. It's absolutely crazy. I mean, another example real quick is Iran. Look at photos. You want to prove this to somebody? Show them photos of Iran before the revolution…
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fake intelligence that says Mossadegh is a communist. Iran's right next to the Soviet Union. Oh my God, they've got to him. We've got to get him out of office. Do I believe that you could have operated as Kermit Roosevelt did in the cooing …
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U.S., communist, whatever, communist USA, whatever it is. But to use the fact that you have a few disorganized, and probably the best example of that is Iran, when we overthrew that government in 1953. Every single piece of paper that went …
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I find it very interesting that in the one video of Trump calling out the $1.7 billion being delivered to Iran, that you would not have done that if you didn't already have an apparatus inside of Iran under the mullahs that were perpetuatin…
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was critical to dismantling the Iranian deep state. So the assassination of the Iranian general was required to dismantle that infrastructure in Iran that the CIA had set up during the shock. So none of the things that you're saying support…
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Persian Gulf. And they didn't actually withdraw. They were kicked out. They were kicked out of almost all of the countries to include Iran when they tried to overthrow Mosaddegh in 1953. They later got back in when they reinstalled the Shah…
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keeping up with American policy on Iran. Why would that matter in 1951? Because we go in and overthrow it in 1953. What the State Department did in this affair would be a guide to what might or might not do to one of his clients, United Fru…
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in Iran, and we did it in Guatemala. And they were both basically the same thing. It was a company, in the case of Iran, BP, from the UK, that got kicked out, and Guatemala kicked United Fruit out. And they just gather the wagons and go in …
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who were basically imperialist colonies of U.S. oligarchs. So, of course, Guatemala was the coup that happened right after the Iranian coup in 1953 that basically overthrew Arbenz Guzman and installed a fascist dictator. Mann was recalled f…
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That to me is a clear indication that it was the 1953 overthrow of Mossadegh into the Shah. The Shah had become so unpopular, not unlike Batista in Cuba, that there needed to be another regime change. In comes the Mullahs. And they kept the…
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Formosa to Taiwan, and off to the races we go. There was not a lot of the apparatus that was set up by the CIA, MI6, and Mossad that changed during the Mullah's regime. So just keep that in the back of your mind as we go through this. Back …
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And I'll give you – I'll paint you a real example. The agent in charge of the Tehran embassy back in – I think it would have been 50 or 49. He was trying to run a coup against the democratically elected leader of Iran. And he couldn't get i…
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be outside of Iran at the time, and he bumped into Schwarzkopf's father, and he was discussing the issue. In the meantime, we had a, this would have had to have been in 51 and 52, because we had... Yeah, but what I'm really trying to talk a…
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And that was the ultimate bring down. But at the same time, this guy was told to not do it. And yet he proceeded. And I want to go ahead. Carson, that's not true. As a matter of fact, the very beginning of this book, we've already went thro…
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was dispatched on that mission to do that. As a matter of fact, that wasn't even the first attempted overthrow. The British tried to overthrow Mossadegh because they nationalized the Arab oil, whatever it was called, the oil company that ev…
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They failed so miserably in trying to overthrow Mossadegh that he closed the embassy and kicked them out of the country. They contacted Truman in order to have the CIA do that. Truman and the CIA sent Kermit to meet with the people in Londo…
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I'm not saying that he met somebody and decided, let's follow. And I can bring some historical documents. Yes, in the beginning, Truman did look at it. But Truman told him not to follow. And it was failing. And as it was failing, he told hi…
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where they had dispatched people to talk to the Shah. There was a meeting, as a matter of fact, we went over it two days ago, a meeting of the Shah's sister with Alan Dulles in Switzerland as part of the planning for the overthrow. This was…
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Roosevelt, when he was leading and he had convinced some military personnel to run the coup, what happened to him? The president invited him into the palace and they were all immediately arrested and executed. Meanwhile, Roosevelt, who was …
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All of the research that I've done over the last two years into this particular subject, because I am singly focused on this topic until we get this exposed. I would go so far as to say not only were China and the Soviet Union devastated af…
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It's kind of an interest of mine. Given his role in the 1953 OCD heading that enabled all the crazy shit that is totally undocumented by and large, and also culminating in the control of the Zaputa film, The Weekend of the JFK Assassination…
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right up until they couldn't control them anymore. Then they hated. Estimates are that the agency funneled over $3 million to overthrow the government of Egypt. Kim attempted to harness Arab nationalism to the American wagon. That didn't wo…
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They initiated schemes to discredit Mosaddegh's leadership through the use of psychological warfare, though without accomplishing much more than making them pissed off and aware that the British was staging a coup. By mid-1952, when the Bri…
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Some weeks later, Iranians monarch, the Shah, responded by attempting to dismiss Mossadegh, appointing instead another politician that was a British favorite. This action was done along with Julian Amory, who was a SIS covert warrior. This …
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re-elected Mosaddegh as prime minister, tying the Shah's hands. The prime minister's national front seemed to have overwhelming support. London shifted its stance on covert action. Young ginned up a plan to overthrow Mosaddegh by meaning of…
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Norman Darbyshire took charge of the Cyprus SIS detachment. Monty Woodhouse returned to London where he prepared a new plan called Operation Boot that would finally be implemented. In November 52, the SIS delegation showed the proposal to t…
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while stopping in London. That's an interesting way to say that. The MI6 basically came courting the CIA, Alan Dulles. Roosevelt went on to say what they had in mind was nothing less than overthrowing Mossadegh. They wanted to start immedia…
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While the Truman administration remained in office, official U.S. policy favored a solution, not the overthrow. Thus, nothing happened with the British proposal. But Truman had already become a lame duck, and Eisenhower, working on his tran…
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was that it would be unfair to the American taxpayers for the U.S. government to extend any considerable amount of economic aid to Iran so long as Iran could have access to funds derived from the sale of oil and oil products. In other words…
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Roosevelt estimated the price to be no more than a couple hundred thousand dollars. The flap potential, he said, was ambiguous. If the spooks seriously miscalculated, the result would be disastrous in the entire Middle East. The project got…
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in Beirut. A few months earlier, the CIA station in Tehran had reported inquiries from a senior Iranian general as to whether the U.S. might support a coup against Mossadegh. In mid-March, Frank Wisner had sent the British a message informi…
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To run the cars down so he could come down after the cars. Oh, my gosh. Adorable. And then, of course, once you go outside, he sees the pool and you have to get in. Okay. Well, I think that'd be the same way. So I can't really blame him the…
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And somehow that too is quasi-legal. The CIA would work through Iranian agents developed by the British SIS plus its own people. And by its own people, I assume they mean the stay-behinds they've already trained. To support the plan, the CI…
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period of planning approval, Ajak's execution was quick. It was the struggle for control of the armed forces and police together amounting to some 250,000 Iranians that triggered the actual Iranian coup. In the spring of 1953, Mossadegh ass…
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Meanwhile, Roosevelt replaced Roger Goyran, G-O-I-R-A-N. He had been the station chief for a very long time in Tehran, but Roosevelt was going to take his place because he was going to orchestrate the coup. Roger had recruited quite a netwo…
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The print story may be the weavings of a courier or perhaps only part of a larger tapestry. In any case, the advanced schedules prepared by Ajax planners supported that August 14th would be the critical day. Alan Dulles and his wife, Clover…
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By then, Colonel Nasari's Imperial Guard has sent squads to arrest Mosaddegh's supporters, but they missed Rahayi, who had already gone to the headquarters. Nasari was arrested himself when he attempted to serve the decree. In the morning, …
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While its original budget had been $200,000, AJAC had unfolded in a fashion following a scenario, if not the precise plan. The big winners were the Shah and his henchmen, who gained absolute power, which they held for 26 years, until swept …
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So not only did we pay to overthrow the duly elected prime minister of Iran, we paid for the dictator that we installed with our tax dollars. The flow neared a billion dollars by the end of Ike's term in 1960. The losers, of course, were th…
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where he was the CIA station chief, Egypt, Lebanon, Iran, and Iraq. What do those all have in common? We've cooed them all. While working at Booz Allen Hamilton, Copeland was involved in the 1953 overthrow of Mossadegh, because of course he…
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and we have learned there's no such thing as coincidence when it comes to the CIA. They both showed up at the reception desk at exactly the same time, Wisner told a CIA associate, and Dulles had to say politely, after you, your majesty. Dul…
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that Iran was a Cold War battleground and Mosaddegh had to go. In June of 1953, Allen presented the CIA plan to overthrow Mosaddegh's government to his brother in a special meeting in Forrester's office. The coup plan had been drawn up by K…
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Because it was always meant for that. It was never meant for anti-communism. Hiring bands of mercenaries and paying military leaders to betray their country. When push came to shove, Kermit Roosevelt revealed that he shared his grandfather'…
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The one and only time Iran has ever had a democratically elected prime minister. Mohammad Mosaddegh had been violently evicted from his office, but the CIA coup could not be successfully completed until the Shah was returned. As the coup go…
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In the dining room at the hotel, when they heard that Mosaddegh had been overthrown, the Shah seemed shaken by the news instead of overjoyed. His jaw dropped, according to one observer. I have to admit that I hadn't had a very important par…
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for pictures. Some were paid to fling themselves on the ground and kiss his feet. The Shah warmly greeted Ambassador Henderson as one of the heroes of the coup. By the time he was carried back to the palace in the royal limousine, past the …
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of the CIA. The Shah is living in a dream world, Henderson remarked later. He seems to think his restoration was due entirely to his popularity. He knew better. Dulles would look back on the coup in Iran as one of the two greatest triumphs …
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would give his left you-know-what, well, let's just say index finger, Roosevelt said, if he could go somewhere in the field and engineer the coup himself. Dulles' handiwork could also be seen in the compliant U.S. press covering the regime …
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exuberance over its success. A Washington Post editorial saw the overturning of the Iran's democratic government as a, quote, cause to rejoice, unquote. The New York Times took a similar line, calling Mossadegh a rabid, self-seeking nationa…
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The U.S. press even avoided using awkward words like coup, preferring to describe it as a CIA-engineered operation of a popular uprising or nation's revolt, none of which were true. If Dulles carefully concealed the CIA's role from the Amer…
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Who else would allow that to happen to their country except for a dirty, rotten scoundrel? But the hollow man proved very useful for Western interests, including those of the Dulles brothers and their clients. Now, the book says former clie…
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Once again, the country's natural treasure was handed over to foreign corporations, with 40% of the spoil now going to Standard Oil through their subsidiaries. Kim Roosevelt was among those who cashed in on the coup. Where did he go? He wen…
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To whom he owed the throne, almost completely. The Iran coup had an intoxicating effect on the Eisenhower administration, the CIA, and the State Department. Quote, it was a day that should never have ended, unquote. It carried with it a sen…
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So our government was celebrating the overthrow of the first and only democratically elected government in Iran. The president summoned the now mythic Roosevelt to the White House to make a special presentation on his coup in Iran. A spellb…
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and had ever touched Mosaddegh or any of his efforts. The Tudor party bore the brunt. With CIA assistance, the Shah's U.S.-trained security forces tracked down over 4,000 party members from 53 to 57. And by the way, that 4,000 number, I've …
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to their previous prime minister. The Shah refused Mosaddegh's final request to be buried in the main Tehran cemetery alongside the bodies of his supporters that had been killed during the insurrection. Instead, he was buried underneath his…
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And not only this book, but I told you in the book, The Determined Spy about Frank Wisner, he was intimately involved in the planning with Kermit Roosevelt of the Iran coup. And he talks about it a lot. I mean, he goes into detail about the…
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tribal area in the South that they actually, and he talks about the fact that they created a military advisory group. So we had U.S. military in Southern Iran training the stay behind guys used in the coup. And again, this is something that…
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that are going to get this contract. One's out doing a coup and the other one with Margaret Thatcher's son. And how is that any different than Kermit Roosevelt overthrowing Iran, right? You just can't make this shit up. It just, the interli…
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That's definitely something, Bridget, we need to make a note of and go back and see if any of these grants went into Cuba, because this is a rigged system. It's like us paying for the coup, which we did in Iran, and Standard Oil got the con…
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the overthrow of Mossadegh. They knew every single thing that was happening because all of their diplomatic communications were spied on. So once you understand that, and that company existed up until 2020, and most of the countries didn't …
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In 1953, it was British and the United States that overthrew Iran using, quote unquote, NATO and a full onslaught of psychological operations inside of Iran. So the fact that this author thinks that the UK and the US was on the outside of t…
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maintained a close relationship with the guy that replaced him called Michael Goodwin. The ISC attempted to launch an American branch of itself. The committee for the American branch in March 1975 was Barnett himself, George Ball, Brzezinsk…
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He was not the CIA director while he was there. He was still basically working for Sullivan and Cromwell, doing their bidding with all of the oligarchs that owns transnational corporations. And so Alan Dulles sends Kermit Roosevelt, Teddy R…
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The Iranian one in 53 benefited them because Standard Oil got 34% of the concession for picking up the phone and calling Allen Dulles and telling him to overthrow Mossadegh. So it's just literally crazy. Literally crazy. All right. Well, th…