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Claims (68)
CIA carried_out_attack
Mohammad Mosaddegh documented
“on Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh to reinstall the Shah Pahlavi, all on behalf of the British Petroleum, British Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. And the cut that the U.S. got somehow ended up in Standard Oil's portfolio.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 6:27
CIA overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh documented
“After the CIA overthrow of the Iranian Prime Minister Mosaddegh in 1953, Joan gave birth to two children, a boy and a girl. Like Fritz Molden, her second choice for a husband seemed crafted primarily for her husband's, for her father's prof…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 6 @ 38:03
Mohammad Mosaddegh overthrew
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company documented
“who immediately presented a bill for the government to take Anglo-Iranian and nationalize it, which it did through their parliament. Because of the global interest, the Anglo-Iranian oil company had a working relationship with the covert el…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 43:31
CIA carried_out_attack
Mohammad Mosaddegh documented
“The president did this even while Indochina and Guatemala ventures were in progress. President Eisenhower began his quest for a new system for covert operations in 1954 when Ajax shone as the CIA's crowning achievement. You know, the overth…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 4:44
Kenneth Love spied_on
Mohammad Mosaddegh book_quoted
“CIA officers contacted army units throughout Iran to rally them to Zahidi. That would be in addition to the stay behind people. We're going to refer to them as army units. At the end of the second day, pro-Shah tank units informed by report…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 29:18
Allen Dulles ordered_assassination_of
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #4 @ 1:33:43
Kermit Roosevelt carried_out_attack
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #4 @ 1:33:43
Kermit Roosevelt overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“So you had instances, and the one that sticks out the clearest to me is when BP ran aground with Mosaddegh in Iran and got kicked out of the country because they tried to coup him and had to come hat in hand to the CIA for them to send Kerm…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 1:03:35
CIA carried_out_attack
Mohammad Mosaddegh book_quoted
“That Kermit Roosevelt was sent there. And if it wasn't the USDA, why did Kermit Roosevelt, who worked for the USDA, why was he there? Why was he the one? And it says, he admits it in his memoirs, by the way. He admits to getting rid of Mosa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 6:57
CIA overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“If he wasn't elected, then how did the UK try to coup him? And if he was so unpopular in Iran, then why wasn't the people prior to the CIA getting them out in the streets? Why did the people have to be paid? They spent millions of dollars i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 6:28
Kermit Roosevelt attempted_coup_against
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 47:06
Reza Pahlavi attempted_coup_against
Mohammad Mosaddegh documented
“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 …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 45:03
Mohammad Mosaddegh removed_from_power
Reza Pahlavi documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 45:36
Standard Oil financed_via
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“In that case, the British failed to overthrow Mossadegh when they tried a couple of times. The U.S. stepped in and did it for them because there was ultimately when the U.S. stepped in and helped, Standard Oil got a cut of the profits at th…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8 @ 1:27:45
Dwight D. Eisenhower overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“all of the regime overthrows and the assassinations that were ordered by Eisenhower to include the assassination of Patrice Lumumba and the overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran. And once you understand that they were just as instrumental in overt…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 24:41
CIA overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“The ability for the CIA to know all of the internal workings of Sadat as they're getting ready to execute him is very important. And the same way where you had Iran in the overthrow of Mosaddegh, you have the ability to know everything that…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 1:19:28
United States overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 1:52:22
Kermit Roosevelt overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“and Henry Kissinger, along with CIA man John McCloy and Richie boy Archibald Roosevelt Jr., who was Kermit Roosevelt's cousin. Now, Kermit Roosevelt we met when he was the CIA agent that was responsible for the overthrow of Mossadegh in Ira…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Live Research Project into CIA corruption @ 38:01
Operation Ajax removed_from_power
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“and got rid of Mossadegh, the actually elected prime minister of Iran, all because he nationalized the oil industry so they could get more than 14 cent of the profit of every dollar because the other 86 was going to British Petroleum. Cartw…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Live Research Project into CIA corruption @ 39:02
CIA overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“They just earlier, a few years earlier, overthrew Iran and Mosaddegh. So they're just on a tear. Anyway, that gets us through the major facts of Indonesia. So we can go ahead and open it up for anybody that.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 1:01:33
CIA overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“and install their own government in order to proceed with the pipeline, which, of course, we know they do that all the time. A somewhat similar situation arose in 1953 when, of course, he's talking about the overthrow of Mossadegh, which, a…”
▶ Operation Gladio and a look back at 9_11 @ 53:08
CIA overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“If you understand the history of Iran, and I just talked about this today, if you guys missed my 4 o'clock today, please go listen to it, because it is the history of Iran from Operation Ajax, where we overthrew Mossadegh, the creation of t…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 1:21:23
CIA carried_out_attack
Mohammad Mosaddegh book_quoted
“And I'm not writing a book. Okay, moving on. Project AJAC envisioned a quasi-legal overthrow. There's literally no such thing. In which the CIA would manipulate public opinion into opposition and suborn members of the armed forces and basic…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 4:08
CIA overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“And so BP just contacts Standard Oil and they make a deal. Hey, we'll give you 30% of the concession if you tell the CIA to go overthrow Mosaddegh. And that's exactly what happened. There was no reason for BP to give Standard Oil anything. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 6 II @ 1:07:59
CIA overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“their intel and counterintelligence operations against the Soviets. Now, keep in mind, we had couped the Iran and got rid of Mosaddegh and installed the Shah back, right? So he's going in there. He would have served there with Schwarzkopf's…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program @ 12:00
Allen Dulles threatened
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“The Secretary of State assured the oilman that if any sultan or despot were to be as unwise as Mosaddegh and try to nationalize his underground desert treasure, the country would soon find itself the target of an international intervention.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 5:35
CIA overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 1:26:36
United Kingdom attempted_coup_against
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 1:26:12
Inter-Services Intelligence attempted_coup_against
Mohammad Mosaddegh documented
“Because we've not spent any time just looking at MI6 coups themselves, there are some. And the one that sticks out most is when they tried to, by themselves, coup Mossadegh in Iran, which happens right after this, by the way. That happened …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3 @ 1:07:52
Kermit Roosevelt overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh documented
“Kaiser previously had been a first lieutenant in the U.S. Signal Corps. What's the U.S. Signal Corps? Intelligence. CIA. Code-breaking OSS. After Kaiser's death, his Middle East Institute, they had several other part-time presidents. One of…”
▶ The Shadow State 64 The Diplomats @ 1:16:32
Averell Harriman overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“Like the World Anti-Communist League, the ABN, all of those. Well, Harriman's not done yet. He goes to Iran in 1951 to mediate the Anglo-Iranian oil company nationalization. How'd that work out? How'd that work out? Jinx, you owe me a Coke.…”
▶ The Shadow State 48 Skull & Bones Finale Pt. 1 @ 43:20
Kermit Roosevelt carried_out_attack
Mohammad Mosaddegh documented
“Iran is completely discombobulated to the facts. So before Operation Ajax and the overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran done with Kermit Roosevelt Jr. as the lead CIA person, I just recently found out that…”
▶ The Shadow State 55 The Delano and Roosevelt Bloodlines @ 1:22:45
Kermit Roosevelt overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh documented
“Also attended a Groton school. A lot of the Roosevelt's went there. And then, of course, I didn't take any notes here because I know you're going to cover this guy. Kermit Roosevelt III went to school there. So he's actually very interestin…”
▶ The Shadow State 43 Secret Societies 26; The Praetorian Guard @ 1:03:23
Operation 40 overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“The 1953 overthrow of Mossadegh as prime minister of Iran because he dared to take his oil when BP Oil wouldn't renegotiate the concession to be something other than 86-14, giving them 14 pennies of every dollar while they pocketed the othe…”
▶ The Shadow State 36 Secret Societies 20; The Groton School @ 1:09:57
BP Oil targeted_for_regime_change
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“The 1953 overthrow of Mossadegh as prime minister of Iran because he dared to take his oil when BP Oil wouldn't renegotiate the concession to be something other than 86-14, giving them 14 pennies of every dollar while they pocketed the othe…”
▶ The Shadow State 36 Secret Societies 20; The Groton School @ 1:09:57
Mohammad Mosaddegh carried_out_attack
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company caller_asserted
“He seems to have a really good knowledge sometimes of deep politics in Iran. He knows, for instance, that Mossadegh took everybody off to international arbitration in the 1950s. But one of the facts in Iran is that it's really the oil smugg…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 1:35:40
Kermit Roosevelt carried_out_attack
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“Talking in 1954 about Eisenhower giving the highest medal for intelligence work called the National Security Medal to Kermit Roosevelt, which, of course, we know he was intimately involved in the overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran. And because …”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 2:29
Mohammad Mosaddegh overthrew
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company host_asserted
“He offers 50-50 with them, and the BP guys say, yeah, no, we're not going to do that. We like the arrangement that we have, so go pound sand. We don't really care that you're the new prime minister. We're just going to go ahead and do what …”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 6:46
Mohammad Mosaddegh recruited
United States host_asserted
“and actually contacts Eisenhower and asks for help with the oil wells, not knowing what the real deal is, and also asks for foreign aid. Well, we know because Eisenhower's on the take for these people too, which is why we got the two Dulles…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 17:18
Operation 40 targeted_for_regime_change
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“So Operation Ajak focused on getting the Iranian army to back the Shah, who basically had just been deposed when they decided they were going to have a democratic election. You know, that thing that everybody says they want that they don't …”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 18:45
Mohammad Mosaddegh recruited
Soviet Union host_asserted
“So, nobody's going to be there to help Mosaday except the Soviet Union. And then, of course, as soon as he reaches out to the Soviet Union after everybody else has turned him down, he's labeled a communist. And there are actually declassifi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 19:48
Reza Pahlavi removed_from_power
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“The former Iranian commander by the name of Zahedi, Z-A-H-E-D-I, and he is the one that Kermit ends up working with. And they draft a decree that has the Shah dismissing Mosaddegh, even though technically that wasn't allowed. Minor technica…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 20:23
Reza Pahlavi attempted_assassination_of
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“He had gotten a tip off because there were still loyal people in the army that they were coming and he escaped out the back and they basically burnt the entire thing down thinking he was in it originally. And so he survives the assassinatio…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 22:23
Standard Oil ordered_assassination_of
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“And so BP just contacts Standard Oil and they make a deal. Hey, we'll give you 30% of the concession if you tell the CIA to go overthrow Mosaddegh. And that's exactly what happened. There was no reason for BP to give Standard Oil anything. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 6 II @ 1:07:59
Allen Dulles carried_out_attack
Mohammad Mosaddegh book_quoted
“because we did our own independent research on that. He does mention the Standard Oil piece of it and the fact that John Foster Dulles and Alan Dulles, who had formerly been Sullivan and Cromwell attorneys and had Standard Oil as a customer…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 8:03
Kermit Roosevelt carried_out_attack
Mohammad Mosaddegh book_quoted
“that the person that they selected to orchestrate that was Kermit Roosevelt, grandson of Teddy Roosevelt, who oversaw the creation of the beginnings of the American empire with the things that were done much earlier in the early 1900s with …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 8:31
Mohammad Mosaddegh targeted_for_regime_change
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company documented
“were led and financed by the CIA and the final act to a covert drama aimed at overthrowing the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and restoring the Shah. Mossadegh was a dedicated patriot and survivor of …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 7:01
Reza Pahlavi installed
Mohammad Mosaddegh 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
Reza Pahlavi overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh book_quoted
“At the hotel, a curious wink and a nod, but then quickly moved on. Amid the hubbub of Mosaddegh's fall, noted the magazine, the CIA director suddenly was spotted in the hotel. But no one paid attention to him, they said. Dulles not only per…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 36:06
Allen Dulles overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh 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
CIA overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“The SABAC, that was basically the terror organization, as we saw the DINA in Chile and everything else. He was installed by the CIA after overthrowing Mosaddegh. So the overthrow of the Shah by the Ayatollah, who, by the way, just mysteriou…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 1:45:43
CIA overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“The UK refused to give it to him and then tried to coup him. They failed in the coup. They got kicked out of the country. So they had to come hat in hand to the US and ask the US to help in the coup. That's where Kermit Roosevelt came into …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 12:14
United States overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“Iran was getting 14% and the UK was taking 86% of the profits. And everybody knew that was not fair. And Mossadegh wanted it fixed. And he offered the UK 50-50. And the UK said no. Well, the UK ended up with 50 because the US, in coming in …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 8 @ 1:14:27
CIA overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh book_quoted
“They go through about the hidden hand, speaking of the CIA, which promoted the coup and overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran, the Talmuds in Laos, in Vietnam, in the Congo, and in Algiers. Those who financed the secret army against De Gaulle. I m…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 4 @ 1:00:10
Standard Oil ordered_assassination_of
Mohammad Mosaddegh 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
Frank Wisner ordered_assassination_of
Mohammad Mosaddegh guest_asserted
“all of the British embassy people out, all of the MI6 agents that they knew about out of the country. So they have to come hat in hand to the U.S. to ask for assistance. And Frank Wisner selects Kermit Roosevelt Jr. to create a plan to over…”
▶ The Shadow State 55 The Delano and Roosevelt Bloodlines @ 1:24:33
Kermit Roosevelt overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh guest_asserted
“And they basically imprisoned Mosaddegh in his house where he eventually died. He was never allowed any freedom after that. And they reinstall the Shah. And so Kermit Roosevelt, and that's not the only operation he did. He did a lot. He ope…”
▶ The Shadow State 55 The Delano and Roosevelt Bloodlines @ 1:26:43
CIA overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh guest_asserted
“I found them in Iran when we overthrew Mossadegh in 1953. They were in Guatemala when we overthrew that government the year after.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 15:59
Allen Dulles ordered_assassination_of
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“demand was that you had to cut in Standard Oil for the remaining piece up to the 50%. And so they ended up with like 34% of the concession. So the moral of the story, the UK only ever got 50%. He could have done that without any loss of lif…”
▶ The Shadow State 36 Secret Societies 20; The Groton School @ 1:10:54
SAVAK ordered_assassination_of
Mohammad Mosaddegh book_quoted
“The Sabah began providing him with a list of names of anti-Shah activists that needed to be eliminated because this is a consistent theme of all of these countries. It isn't really the country that does it. They do it in cooperation with th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 21:13
Kermit Roosevelt trained
Mohammad Mosaddegh guest_asserted
“Kermit was intimately involved in setting up stay-behind units under the auspices of Operation Gladio using a military advisory group in the southern part of Iran. They had went into the tribal areas and basically trained them to be Gladio …”
▶ The Shadow State 55 The Delano and Roosevelt Bloodlines @ 1:23:12
CIA overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“You know, of Mossadegh and Allende. And of course, the first thing somebody says is one of the guys comes up and he goes, yeah, you're right about all of your history. But, you know, they were communist or at least communist-ish. And I go, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 1:21:49
Allen Dulles ordered_assassination_of
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“or the end note on kermit how does he end his career well 1954 alan dulles asks him to lead the cia coup coup in guatemala yes roosevelt refused and the official narrative of this is he says that ajax this is what this is for his own words …”
▶ The Shadow State 55 The Delano and Roosevelt Bloodlines @ 1:28:08
CIA ordered_assassination_of
Mohammad Mosaddegh guest_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 1:24:19
Dwight D. Eisenhower overthrew
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“very good friends and very close to Dwight D. Eisenhower, who we know goes on to use Operation Gladio and coups, killing Lumumba, going into Iran to overthrow Mossadegh and to Guatemala.…”
▶ AlphaWarrior Show - OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 55 - _WEF - WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ORIGINS_ - EP.417 @ 21:23
CIA assassinated
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“which the CIA had gotten tired of working with him anyway. He was getting a little too big for his britches. So they didn't really care if someone overthrew him because keep in mind, the only reason the Shah was in charge of Iran at the tim…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372 @ 45:15
Donald Wilber trained
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“He was the psychological expert on creating the myth that the Tudor party was an imminent threat, which we know is not true. So I'm going to stop right there and we will continue with the rest of this on Monday as it gets really interesting…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 54:20
Lloyd Henderson ordered_assassination_of
Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted
“which he claimed had even threatened the U.S. embassy and assaulted his chauffeur, all of which is bullshit. Henderson warned the prime minister if he didn't restore order, the U.S. would have to evacuate all Americans and withdraw its reco…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 24:54
Mentions (120)
▶ 21:23
very good friends and very close to Dwight D. Eisenhower, who we know goes on to use Operation Gladio and coups, killing Lumumba, going into Iran to overthrow Mossadegh and to Guatemala. So he definitely used the, this guy, Lucius Clay, was…
▶ 13:59
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 …
▶ 53:08
and install their own government in order to proceed with the pipeline, which, of course, we know they do that all the time. A somewhat similar situation arose in 1953 when, of course, he's talking about the overthrow of Mossadegh, which, a…
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The deal Mosaddegh was offering them, but not before they cut in Standard Oil and still left the Iranians with jack shit. And those are the circumstances that our State Department and our CIA is orchestrating on behalf of the American gover…
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If you understand the history of Iran, and I just talked about this today, if you guys missed my 4 o'clock today, please go listen to it, because it is the history of Iran from Operation Ajax, where we overthrew Mossadegh, the creation of t…
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Raja Pahlavi's government with advisory missions while the Standard Oil is trying to renegotiate and get part of the concession. It doesn't work. The predecessor to BP has the concession. They've had the concession the entire time. Why is t…
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Standard Oil ends up with 34% of the concession. So the whole basis of the overthrow of the Mossadegh, which was the first democratically elected, and there's people out on the internet that will say, oh, he wasn't elected. And they complet…
▶ 11:15
And the parliament elects the prime minister. So he was actually elected. So just ignore those people. They're stupid. So if you guys remember the story, and I'll tell it really quick, the overthrow of Mossadegh happened because he had nati…
▶ 11:46
just approved a 50-50 concession. So Mosaddegh, having been left with the remnants of the Shah's evil regime using his secret police force that I just described to you how they got it, had no education, no hospitals, no nothing for the comm…
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And they're killing U.S. basically ambassadors. It's in order for the Standard Oil to get their foot in the door. It gets handed to them with the overthrow of Mossadegh. And what's important about that is the CIA supposedly on our dime went…
▶ 13:34
You know, so he's overthrown in 53. Kennedy comes in, Mossadegh was, and the Shah is basically put back in power. Kennedy tried pushing the Shah to make reforms because he's well aware of him using the secret police. And he basically pushed…
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So religious leader Khashoggi had split from Mossadegh and basically they had used calling Mossadegh a communist as the reason for that perceived split. But newly released documents showed that Khashoggi wasn't just opposed to Mossadegh. He…
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And this is very important to this whole story. It's going to illustrate that there is no difference between the mullahs and the Shah. And this is going to be throughout the entire show. He was in close communication with Americans througho…
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This financial assistance had not previously been known until some recently declassified information came out. On the make or break day of August 19th, Khashoggi was critical, said Milani. On that day, Khashoggi's forces were out in full fo…
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21 years earlier, Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh of Iran had come to the UN to present his case against a foreign corporation that controlled his country's basic resource. And of course, that was BP because we've talked about him. Alente…
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Under the control of foreign corporations, and then they tried to reclaim them, great powers came down upon them. At 11 o'clock on the morning of December 4th, 1972, after a brief meeting with George H.W. Bush, the American ambassador to th…
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Um, they end up installing Suharto and of course Suharto goes on as did Pinochet and all of the rest of them and kills, you know, tens of thousands, um, if not millions, um, I mean, a ton of people die as a result of this. Um, and again, th…
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So he is in charge of their spy organization and Alan Dulles becomes in charge of the CIA. And they both orchestrated the spreading of the stay behind units all over the world. I found them in Iran when we overthrew Mossadegh in 1953. They …
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The Office of Public Safety is one of those things that once you start researching it, your mind just explodes. They recruited former cops from all over the United States and they trained them to go into these countries that they were going…
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They had stay behinds in southern Iran leading up to the overthrow of Mossadegh. I didn't know that until last week. I had never found any trace of stay behinds in Iran, although I researched Iran extensively until literally last week. They…
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under the guise of USAID, Office of Public Safety. What a weird name. General Norman Schwarzkopf Sr., Desert Storm Guy's dad. Yeah. He created the SABOC. He trained the SABOC under the Office of Public Safety. The SABOC is a terrorist organ…
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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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and Henry Kissinger, along with CIA man John McCloy and Richie boy Archibald Roosevelt Jr., who was Kermit Roosevelt's cousin. Now, Kermit Roosevelt we met when he was the CIA agent that was responsible for the overthrow of Mossadegh in Ira…
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and got rid of Mossadegh, the actually elected prime minister of Iran, all because he nationalized the oil industry so they could get more than 14 cent of the profit of every dollar because the other 86 was going to British Petroleum. Cartw…
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which the CIA had gotten tired of working with him anyway. He was getting a little too big for his britches. So they didn't really care if someone overthrew him because keep in mind, the only reason the Shah was in charge of Iran at the tim…
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who has always been in the tank for part of MI6, and Iran, who at the time was in the tank with BP and Standard Oil after the overthrow of Mossadegh, right? So these are all NATO-controlled. France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Iran. Prima…
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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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their intel and counterintelligence operations against the Soviets. Now, keep in mind, we had couped the Iran and got rid of Mosaddegh and installed the Shah back, right? So he's going in there. He would have served there with Schwarzkopf's…
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And both of those gave birth to Operation Gladio. Thank you. Well, this guy's there working for the CIA. So something happens in 1953. He gets disillusioned. And I think this is an actual break because, well, we'll see. He saw what happened…
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The SABAC, that was basically the terror organization, as we saw the DINA in Chile and everything else. He was installed by the CIA after overthrowing Mosaddegh. So the overthrow of the Shah by the Ayatollah, who, by the way, just mysteriou…
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And their embassy in Tehran in 1953 said, oh, my God, the communists are going to overthrow the government. The communists are in bed with Mossadegh. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Well, if you actually do the math, and I've read so mu…
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Alinde and Mosaday was kind of communist. And I'm like, well, first of all, and I didn't say this because I got cut off and the mic got taken away because they obviously didn't want to hear the answer to that. But for anyone listening to th…
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When some if you use the definition that was used on Allende, Mosaday, Lumumba, then Trump is a communist and you can clip that. OK, because Trump wants to pay attention to America. He wants to make deals no matter how bad they are for ever…
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So that you can understand when you are listening to people tell you things. Oh, and by the way, you can look on my feed. When I talked about Moe today, and this happens every time I talk about him. Oh my God, he wasn't elected. Yes, he was…
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That Kermit Roosevelt was sent there. And if it wasn't the USDA, why did Kermit Roosevelt, who worked for the USDA, why was he there? Why was he the one? And it says, he admits it in his memoirs, by the way. He admits to getting rid of Mosa…
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I love the people that try to make the case that the Shah was the rightful owner and most today was the trespasser, except for he was actually elected and you had to coup him and keep him imprisoned for the rest of his life because he was s…
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You know, of Mossadegh and Allende. And of course, the first thing somebody says is one of the guys comes up and he goes, yeah, you're right about all of your history. But, you know, they were communist or at least communist-ish. And I go, …
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The obvious answer, again, keep it simple, is that they are not there to protect Americans because they don't miss anything that has to do with the people they actually work for, which are the oligarchs. If their businesses are in danger, a…
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all of the regime overthrows and the assassinations that were ordered by Eisenhower to include the assassination of Patrice Lumumba and the overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran. And once you understand that they were just as instrumental in overt…
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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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And by the 1970s, they had actually done so by basically eliminating, like in assassination, almost the entire Corsican mafia crew. But I find it very interesting that they're talking about using Iran, because keep in mind, in 1953, we over…
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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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to make them dependent upon the U.S. for spare parts and new equipment and all of this other stuff. And it basically just overthrew all of their rural agricultural products. And as we saw, what happened in Iran was something very similar to…
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They go through about the hidden hand, speaking of the CIA, which promoted the coup and overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran, the Talmuds in Laos, in Vietnam, in the Congo, and in Algiers. Those who financed the secret army against De Gaulle. I m…
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You're not going to understand how widespread this is. And, you know, again, we went through so many countries. And I just as you guys saw my five part series on Iran, I just found the fact that Iran had stay behind units before the coup of…
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other things in Iraq, and then turn your back on them. That's what they did. They sentenced them to exile. The very people that were the biggest supporters of the United States in Iran that the Rockefeller Industrial Complex used to train a…
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you know, some 20% of the revenue after the overthrow of Mossadegh from the British Petroleum. And we literally turned our backs on them. Not only did we turn our backs on them, with the Shaw back in office in charge, they actually attacked…
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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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But the loss of their 20-year relationship with Iran, their only major trading partner in the region, Israelis felt that they had to find a way to get along with the new regime. A friendly relationship with Iran was a cornerstone of their e…
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The ability for the CIA to know all of the internal workings of Sadat as they're getting ready to execute him is very important. And the same way where you had Iran in the overthrow of Mosaddegh, you have the ability to know everything that…
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In that case, the British failed to overthrow Mossadegh when they tried a couple of times. The U.S. stepped in and did it for them because there was ultimately when the U.S. stepped in and helped, Standard Oil got a cut of the profits at th…
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CIA does not work for the United States because the cut of the profit of the CIA going in and overthrowing Mosaddegh didn't go to the United States taxpayer into the Treasury. It went to Standard Oil because that's who they actually work fo…
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So they're going to do counterinsurgency operations because the bad guys are always called insurgents, right? Insurgents, by definition, basically means hostile force. The problem is that in the past, if you go back and you read a lot of li…
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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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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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Talking in 1954 about Eisenhower giving the highest medal for intelligence work called the National Security Medal to Kermit Roosevelt, which, of course, we know he was intimately involved in the overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran. And because …
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And then these people, in order to steal all of your resources, comes in and builds an oil well or two or 10 or whatever. And then when you get tired of your citizens being murdered and the women being raped and shit being stolen, you rise …
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He offers 50-50 with them, and the BP guys say, yeah, no, we're not going to do that. We like the arrangement that we have, so go pound sand. We don't really care that you're the new prime minister. We're just going to go ahead and do what …
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these materials. So it's just one big self-licking ice cream cone. All right. So the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company is what's at stake. And Mohamed Mosadeh, the prime minister, there's some, as he's taking office, because they didn't really want…
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no matter who they hire to come in and harvest the oil. So now that there's basically a standoff at this point, we send over W. Avril Harriman. Yeah, from Brown Brothers Harriman. And a guy by the name of Paul Nitz, N-I-T-Z-E. They too fail…
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are embedded in the government and going to overthrow the government. They're embedded in the U.S. government. They're going to overthrow the Iranian government for the guys that was just their client before they walked into their offices. …
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So Operation Ajak focused on getting the Iranian army to back the Shah, who basically had just been deposed when they decided they were going to have a democratic election. You know, that thing that everybody says they want that they don't …
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So basically, they have 200,000 armed forces, and they have about 50,000 in their national police force. And keep in mind that their national police force was set up by Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. while he was over in Iran. It was called the SAV…
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So, nobody's going to be there to help Mosaday except the Soviet Union. And then, of course, as soon as he reaches out to the Soviet Union after everybody else has turned him down, he's labeled a communist. And there are actually declassifi…
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The former Iranian commander by the name of Zahedi, Z-A-H-E-D-I, and he is the one that Kermit ends up working with. And they draft a decree that has the Shah dismissing Mosaddegh, even though technically that wasn't allowed. Minor technica…
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And it just so happens, as with all of these instances, Alan Dulles is out of town because that's their, quote unquote, plausible deniability. So he's on vacation in the Swiss Alps. Well, it just so happens that the Iranian princess, Ashraf…
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He had gotten a tip off because there were still loyal people in the army that they were coming and he escaped out the back and they basically burnt the entire thing down thinking he was in it originally. And so he survives the assassinatio…
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The Standard Oil, there were like three different subsidiaries, but they're all still owned because it was just a shell game to, quote unquote, break up big oil. So Standard Oil comes in and enters into a partnership with the Anglo-Iranian.…
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that the U.S. had to do something, you know, because it was a communist after all. Alan Dulles is even more forthright in his book called The Craft of Intelligence. This is a quote. In Iran, Amosadeh and in Guatemala and Arbenz had come to …
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Back when I read it, which was in Air War College, sounds completely plausible. It's a fucking lie. I just told you what happened. Arbenz was not a communist. Neither was Mosaday. But these people lie in these books and say they are. And th…
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Because we've not spent any time just looking at MI6 coups themselves, there are some. And the one that sticks out most is when they tried to, by themselves, coup Mossadegh in Iran, which happens right after this, by the way. That happened …
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The president did this even while Indochina and Guatemala ventures were in progress. President Eisenhower began his quest for a new system for covert operations in 1954 when Ajax shone as the CIA's crowning achievement. You know, the overth…
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Be more ruthless than the enemy. And the enemy is the indigenous people of the country. The same thing in Iran. The enemy was Mosaddegh and you need to be more ruthless than Mosaddegh. So serious was the conflict with quote unquote communis…
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British documents have John Foster Dulles on record from a year earlier speculating that the Mossadegh example might be the way to handle the Iraq situation. Six months later, there was an attempted assassination of the Iraqi leader, Abdul …
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The mafia left when Castro prohibited gambling. Imagine that. Exappropriation as attempted by Mossadegh in Iran and Arbenz in Guatemala became part of the solution. An element of irony existed here since Castro's father had once worked for …
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articulated in the higher level State Department and CIA communications that warranted overthrowing a government because they were communist. So then the example that I always use is the Tudor party where they made up less than 4% of the Ir…
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He seems to have a really good knowledge sometimes of deep politics in Iran. He knows, for instance, that Mossadegh took everybody off to international arbitration in the 1950s. But one of the facts in Iran is that it's really the oil smugg…
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The money accounted for half of the Iran budget. But in fact, the Anglo-Iranian oil company paid more taxes to the British government than to the nation it pumped the oil from. The Anglo-Iranian oil company itself earned 10 times what it pa…
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The prime minister, presenting this conclusion, read a statement that had clearly been inadequate translated from English into Iranian, and this linked him to British interest. He was shouted down and several weeks later was shot dead becau…
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who immediately presented a bill for the government to take Anglo-Iranian and nationalize it, which it did through their parliament. Because of the global interest, the Anglo-Iranian oil company had a working relationship with the covert el…
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The civilian companies run the intelligence. Monty Woodhouse, the SIS station chief, arrived in Tehran in August of 51, only a few weeks after Mossadegh's security service shut down the Anglo-Iranians' own private intelligence operations. B…
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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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The Mossadegh government cut diplomatic relations with the British, closing down the SIS and basically kicked them out of the country. Mossadegh's police also pursued key British agents and pro-Shah figures in the armed forces. The SIS retr…
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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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February 23, 1953, another SIS delegation from Britain headed by Sir John Sinclair, their intelligence chief, was in Washington at the time. Its mission was to plan the Iran mission. Alan Dulles had headed the Near East Division during his …
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oil company's parent firm in the United States. Although he maintained a casual and non-committal posture, Dulles was definitely in. Mosadegh appealed to the incoming administration for aid, not to settle with the former oil company, but to…
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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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on how to proceed. Donald Wilbur, a part-time contract officer and Princeton archaeologist, and Miles Copeland, a veteran of the CIA's Egyptian adventure with Nasser, were the head planners, both experts in psychological operations. Wilbur …
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Talk about timing. This is like God's hand every time we do one of these books. All right. We started off, let's see, I'm trying to get the, I think we're in 1953. Yeah. Okay. So April 4th, Alan Dulles approved a $1 million fund that the Te…
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And I'm not writing a book. Okay, moving on. Project AJAC envisioned a quasi-legal overthrow. There's literally no such thing. In which the CIA would manipulate public opinion into opposition and suborn members of the armed forces and basic…
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To induce the Shah to dismiss Mossadegh, a series of emissaries would proceed to Tehran to persuade him to make the appropriate decree. At that point, the agency would put the crowds into the street to back up the Shah's action and further …
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of the oil revenue after the coup. Pay very close attention to that because it's very telling. The British government and senior SIS officials approved after the meeting. Compared, let's see, Kermit Roosevelt took charge of the CIA task for…
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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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He appointed his own people to head the police and the chief of staff of the army. Quite likely, these actions ticked off the Shah, who had failed to act decisively throughout the previous crisis in his determination to rid himself of Mosad…
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Major General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Storm and Norman Schwarzkopf's dad, known to the Shah as a trainer of his police, the Savak, a few years earlier. He had been recruited by the CIA Iranian branch chief, John Waller, at the end of June. T…
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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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And this is kind of just a hint. SIS networks, it wasn't SIS networks. They were CIA stay-behinds in the South with U.S. military people there. He used SIS communications through Cyprus for cables to Washington. Mosaddegh's own scheme ran i…
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By the next morning, the man was assassinated. We can't let that out. In desperation, Mosaddegh, a populist nationalist and no way a communist, on August 8th, opened trade talks with the Soviet Union because the U.S. and no one in Europe wo…
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You're not allowed to do that. This led to President Eisenhower's signing a finding, which basically is the authorization, not that they needed it because he had already approved it. But that's kind of like a promissory note that Mosaddegh'…
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were also told that nothing could be done until the night of the 15th. Late in the afternoon of the action day, someone ratted out the plot. Mosaddegh's chief of staff, General Rahayi, learned of an impending announcement, the decrees that …
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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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paid for the article in the New York Times set all those years later. The CIA's agents fabricated an interview with Zahidi as well. Donald Wilber's CIA account notes that Zahidi stayed with agency officers from August 16th on, and the Zahid…
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plus the Tudor, now began something of a competition with the CIA, the object being to convince Iranians that their side had the upper hand. The government put out press bulletins and held news conferences to insist that the plot had been b…
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believing that Ajax had failed. For its part, the agency circulated cartoons and leaflets drawn up at headquarters, organized press coverages undermining Mosaddegh's claim. For example, one newspaper publisher who had been advanced a sum of…
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Kenneth Love to an interview with General Zahidi. Joe Goodwin used the CIA station radio to relay a message to the Associated Press in New York that asserted that unofficial reports acknowledged that anti-Mosedec forces were armed with offi…
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of their own against Mossadegh. Basically, it was just transporting all their pre-trained stay-behind units into the city. Street protest by Mossadegh supporters persisted. Up to 6,000 pro-Shah rioters recruited by the CIA then took to the …
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Ahead of time, Eisenhower perceived Mosaddegh's failure to suppress the Tudor demonstrations as coddling communists. Well, that's at least the way they spun it here in the United States. And again, they're less than 1% of the entire populat…
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CIA officers contacted army units throughout Iran to rally them to Zahidi. That would be in addition to the stay behind people. We're going to refer to them as army units. At the end of the second day, pro-Shah tank units informed by report…
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So you have a journalist, and I'm going to use air quotes and big air quotes. You have a journalist being an intel officer on the ground conveying intelligence to the troop that is overthrowing the government. That morning, Chief of Staff R…
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Because it could just end us up in another war, which, you know, like, Gladio has been involved and the CIA has been involved there since 1953 when they did the coup to overthrow Mossadegh, you know, which was led by the Dulles brothers. So…
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and a percentage given to the concession. And this was one of the big things that we've learned throughout Operation Gladio. One of the things that you were never allowed to do was change the percentage. So if you were like in the Middle Ea…
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Iran was getting 14% and the UK was taking 86% of the profits. And everybody knew that was not fair. And Mossadegh wanted it fixed. And he offered the UK 50-50. And the UK said no. Well, the UK ended up with 50 because the US, in coming in …
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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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were led and financed by the CIA and the final act to a covert drama aimed at overthrowing the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and restoring the Shah. Mossadegh was a dedicated patriot and survivor of …
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later to become BP, soon after taking office in 1951. The British oil company, the third largest producer of crude oil in the world, ruled Iran with an imperial arrogance for much of the 20th century, crushing labor strikes in the hellish o…