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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
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
Kermit Roosevelt member_of
Operation 40 host_asserted
“hosted a group at his home to hash out the Middle East. Those present, Alan Dulles, Kermit Roosevelt, and James Angleton. Unfamiliar with the chain of command, the CIA officer Wilbur C. Evelyn thought, quote, the plans to undertake a coup i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 18:49
Kermit Roosevelt carried_out_attack
Syria host_asserted
“Kermit Roosevelt completed the scheme with George Young in London in April. Foster Dulles considered the final Omega paper on May 23rd. So again, from March to May, lots of planning, just not interagency planning. Shortly thereafter, Evelyn…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 19:50
Kermit Roosevelt member_of
Paramount Committee host_asserted
“if negotiations failed. Kermit Roosevelt picked up more hints from the British officials at the UN. On September 12th, the CIA created a special interagency group codenamed the Paramount Committee. It was supposed to track all of the Middle…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 27:05
Howard Stone member_of
Kermit Roosevelt host_asserted
“in Beirut, coordinated a covert working group composed of representatives from the British SIS, Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanese intelligence services. Rocky, one of the officers who had worked with Kermit Roosevelt in Iran, had spent a year at h…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 31:11
Miles Copeland helped
Kermit Roosevelt book_quoted
“We came to power on the CIA train, meeting Saddam Hussein. Miles Copeland would later say, I spent most of my time helping Kermit Roosevelt to pick up the pieces after collisions with Egypt and other Middle Eastern governments caused by Sec…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 37:46
Kermit Roosevelt approved
CIA host_asserted
“In the 1950s, factionalism grew so rampant that by 1956, parliament had not yet ratified a government budget for the first years of the decade. For an initial project, the CIA tried political action. Indonesia's elections were scheduled for…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 49:41
Kermit Roosevelt headed
Operation 40 book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 8:10
Kermit Roosevelt reassigned
Roger Goyran book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 14:40
Kermit Roosevelt succeeded
Roger Goyran book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 14:40
Kermit Roosevelt appointed
Directorate of Operations book_quoted
“got cut in on the profits, not the American people who paid for it. After the Iranian project, Kim Roosevelt returned to headquarters as assistant deputy director of the Directorate of Operations under Frank Wisner. He led his political act…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 33:55
Kermit Roosevelt member_of
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 32:24
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
Kermit Roosevelt overthrew
Iran host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 53:19
Kermit Roosevelt overthrew
Iran book_quoted
“had been arranged to award a National Security Medal, the highest decoration given in the U.S. for intelligence work. A few months earlier, December 15, 1954, President Eisenhower had signed a memorandum awarding this medal to CIA Officer K…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 30:49
William J. Donovan recruited
Kermit Roosevelt book_quoted
“Kim joined the War Information Office that while Bill Donovan would eventually turn into the OSS. Roosevelt's PhD dissertation in propaganda, yeah, propaganda in England's glorious revolution had been just the thing to appeal to Donovan who…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 33:24
Frank Wisner recruited
Kermit Roosevelt book_quoted
“Kermit Roosevelt served as the lead writer on an official history of the OSS, and he retreated to writing and academia afterwards, returning to Iran repeatedly beginning in 1947, when he went back to research a book on Arabs and oil. Three …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 34:57
Kermit Roosevelt spied_on
Egypt book_quoted
“There, Roosevelt reminded himself of his low opinion of Farouk, soon denigrating among agency insiders as the fat effer, not heffer, effer, and broadened his contacts to include the Free Officers Movement, a revolutionary group of quote-unq…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 36:30
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
Kermit Roosevelt overthrew
Iran host_asserted
“I'm not aware of any of Roosevelt's actual children being over there, but Kermit was definitely there. Kermit is the guy that, you know, was overthrowing Iran. So I can look into that to see if there was any other Roosevelt's over there at …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3 @ 1:51:20
Kermit Roosevelt member_of
Gulf Oil book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 38:37
Kermit Roosevelt carried_out_attack
Operation 40 host_asserted
“He launched phase two, which happened to be successful, and then they heralded him as a hero. So they 100% disobey orders, to your point. All along? Yeah, Colonel. There's an excellent book by the Australian historian Greg Somebody, who I p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 1:00:56
Allen Dulles removed_from_power
Kermit Roosevelt host_asserted
“If we, the CIA, are ever going to try something like this again, we must be absolutely sure that the people in the Army want what we want. If not, you had better give the job to the Marines, unquote. Roosevelt wrote later that John Foster D…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 26:15
Kermit Roosevelt carried_out_attack
Iran book_quoted
“Roosevelt even admits to doing it in Iran, that the entire quote-unquote communist movement that they're supposedly toppling the government to prevent from happening because that guy's clueless and is allowing it to happen is in itself a fa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3 @ 1:24:21
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 …”
▶ Operation Gladio Vietnam Part 3 @ 1:48:58
Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed
Kermit Roosevelt 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
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
Dwight D. Eisenhower recruited
Kermit Roosevelt host_asserted
“He's going to send some people over there. He just happens to send Kermit Roosevelt to Iran in order to overthrow the government. That operation, if you want to do any research on your own, is called Operation Ajax, A-J-A-X. So he's put in …”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 17:46
Kermit Roosevelt carried_out_attack
Operation 40 host_asserted
“He's going to send some people over there. He just happens to send Kermit Roosevelt to Iran in order to overthrow the government. That operation, if you want to do any research on your own, is called Operation Ajax, A-J-A-X. So he's put in …”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 17:46
Kermit Roosevelt recruited
Reza Pahlavi host_asserted
“Iran under a false identity. He met with the Shah and he is there on behalf of both Winston Churchill and Eisenhower. And he has at least five other CIA agents with him. And then, of course, they have all of the people working with them ins…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 18:13
Kermit Roosevelt recruited
Fazlollah Zahedi 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
Kermit Roosevelt headed
CIA Directorate of Plans host_asserted
“Kermit Roosevelt returned to Washington as the assistant director of the Directorate of Plans, working directly for Wisner. And, you know, Wisner is the guy that runs all the covert operations. And it says Roosevelt directed the political a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 25:46
Kermit Roosevelt exposed
Operation 40 host_asserted
“Kermit Roosevelt returned to Washington as the assistant director of the Directorate of Plans, working directly for Wisner. And, you know, Wisner is the guy that runs all the covert operations. And it says Roosevelt directed the political a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 25:46
Frank Wisner recruited
Kermit Roosevelt host_asserted
“If we, the CIA, are ever going to try something like this again, we must be absolutely sure that the people in the Army want what we want. If not, you had better give the job to the Marines, unquote. Roosevelt wrote later that John Foster D…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 26:15
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
Allen Dulles recruited
Kermit Roosevelt documented
“And again, that's because they don't work for the U.S. government. They work for the oligarchs. And once the brothers fixed the administration on its course, they were confident they had the right man for the job. The Dulles' could see the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 21:25
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
Kermit Roosevelt carried_out_attack
Syria book_quoted
“In July, Kermit Roosevelt went out to Jordan on another assignment related to this same mission. Operation Straggle, known to the Americans as Wakeful, so Straggle was the British name, led to a complete disaster. The basic idea was to brin…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8 @ 9:14
Kermit Roosevelt carried_out_attack
Iran host_asserted
“was selling arms to Israel, selling arms to Iran. And that sort of blows my mind as well. Why was Israel selling arms to Iran at that point? So because we overthrew Iran. So we got rid of Iran's prime minister. And that was the story we tol…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 1:16:01
Kermit Roosevelt founded
Operation 40 host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 52:49
Harry S. Truman removed_from_power
Kermit Roosevelt guest_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 1:24:49
Mentions (112)
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was selling arms to Israel, selling arms to Iran. And that sort of blows my mind as well. Why was Israel selling arms to Iran at that point? So because we overthrew Iran. So we got rid of Iran's prime minister. And that was the story we tol…
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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 …
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Kermit Roosevelt, the Mossadegh coup master, and remember that he's Teddy Roosevelt's grandson. After he left the CIA, he went to be a salesman for none other than Northrop Drummond. He admitted in his memoirs that Savak was 100% created by…
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So given that, I want to go read what he posted in the thread. This post is very interesting because it's talking about the Richie Boys' involvement in Iran. He talks about something called Project Eagle, the covert plan to provide medical …
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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 while he was in Washington, D.C., he was actually living with his cousin, fellow CIA agent Kermit Roosevelt, who at the time was attending Groton and working for the OSS because Kermit also worked for the OSS as a precursor to his job i…
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And was advised by his cousin Kermit that was head of the Middle East counterintelligence group that they needed to meet. Following that meeting, Roosevelt Jr. elected to join what was the precursor to the CIA, the CIG. His disruption of th…
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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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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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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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In July, Kermit Roosevelt went out to Jordan on another assignment related to this same mission. Operation Straggle, known to the Americans as Wakeful, so Straggle was the British name, led to a complete disaster. The basic idea was to brin…
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for which he had brought up a political action specialist by the name of Howard Rocky Stone. So Rocky was his nickname. One of those officers who had worked with Kermit Roosevelt in Iran. The agency got in touch with former Syrian President…
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incidences to Indonesia, they were manipulating the market to cause stress, just like they've done for other countries. The first CIA operation was a political action. Elections were to be held in September 1955, and the Americans wished to…
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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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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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He coincidentally had all of these resources and did this on his own. Again, I've got book after book after book of esteemed historians documenting not just Kermit. There were other U.S. operatives in Iran at the time, to include the ambass…
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No, no, no. They overthrew most of it. It didn't fail. Oh, no. They eventually did. But everything leading up, I think, see, I know we're connecting dots here, but this is probably some additional information. And I'll get you. I'll get you…
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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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that are joining us because we've talked about the overthrow of Mosa Day several different times. So I just want to kind of share with you this guy's version of it, and then we'll move on. So CIA officer Kermit Roosevelt is Teddy Roosevelt'…
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the CIA. And Kermit Roosevelt goes over to London and sits down with the MI6 guys to decide what they're going to do. At the time, the chief of intel at the CIA was Walter Bedell Smith. So Smith, who had worked for Eisenhower as his chief o…
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He's going to send some people over there. He just happens to send Kermit Roosevelt to Iran in order to overthrow the government. That operation, if you want to do any research on your own, is called Operation Ajax, A-J-A-X. So he's put in …
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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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Kermit Roosevelt returned to Washington as the assistant director of the Directorate of Plans, working directly for Wisner. And, you know, Wisner is the guy that runs all the covert operations. And it says Roosevelt directed the political a…
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If we, the CIA, are ever going to try something like this again, we must be absolutely sure that the people in the Army want what we want. If not, you had better give the job to the Marines, unquote. Roosevelt wrote later that John Foster D…
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B-I-S-S-E-L-L, had been an economist by trade and came to the CIA from the Ford Foundation. Together, they coordinated the Washington Inn of the planning. Frank Wisner's task as deputy director of plans was to select who's going to be the f…
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And they failed miserably and got kicked out of the country. So they had to come hat in hand to the CIA for them to insert Kermit Roosevelt to basically overthrow Iran. And so that is a very interesting observation that they had basically t…
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the king got him out and basically put our own guy in. And that the, the drumming up of the quote unquote communist movement inside of Afghanistan was what we just saw. What we see in every one of these cases, a false flag. So they did exac…
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That's what brought him to be the big foe. And I don't know who he's talking about as far as Roosevelt's son, unless he's talking about Kermit, which is Teddy Roosevelt's grandson. Because Teddy Roosevelt's grandson, Kermit Roosevelt, did s…
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I'm not aware of any of Roosevelt's actual children being over there, but Kermit was definitely there. Kermit is the guy that, you know, was overthrowing Iran. So I can look into that to see if there was any other Roosevelt's over there at …
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or making rounds at forward bases, returned to the headquarters for consultations. These meetings were in the deputy director's office. They included Richard Helms, Dick Bissell, Kim Roosevelt, J.C. King, and Jake Esserlin. Wisner hammered …
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of what had already been promised as an election. In October 55, Lansdale was awarded a National Security Medal, just like Kermit Roosevelt, for creating the fucked up mess of Vietnam in which we would end up with tens of thousands of dead …
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hosted a group at his home to hash out the Middle East. Those present, Alan Dulles, Kermit Roosevelt, and James Angleton. Unfamiliar with the chain of command, the CIA officer Wilbur C. Evelyn thought, quote, the plans to undertake a coup i…
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Kermit Roosevelt completed the scheme with George Young in London in April. Foster Dulles considered the final Omega paper on May 23rd. So again, from March to May, lots of planning, just not interagency planning. Shortly thereafter, Evelyn…
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Soviet Union, he totally pissed off John Foster Dulles. Kermit Roosevelt tried and failed to induce Nasser to change course. As the Syrian leaders showed signs of moving towards the Egyptian orbit, they were especially interested in joining…
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if negotiations failed. Kermit Roosevelt picked up more hints from the British officials at the UN. On September 12th, the CIA created a special interagency group codenamed the Paramount Committee. It was supposed to track all of the Middle…
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in Beirut, coordinated a covert working group composed of representatives from the British SIS, Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanese intelligence services. Rocky, one of the officers who had worked with Kermit Roosevelt in Iran, had spent a year at h…
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We came to power on the CIA train, meeting Saddam Hussein. Miles Copeland would later say, I spent most of my time helping Kermit Roosevelt to pick up the pieces after collisions with Egypt and other Middle Eastern governments caused by Sec…
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In the 1950s, factionalism grew so rampant that by 1956, parliament had not yet ratified a government budget for the first years of the decade. For an initial project, the CIA tried political action. Indonesia's elections were scheduled for…
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So they were seeing a window closing and were trying to expedite the approval, but they got approval. And that's not to say they haven't done that, SR, to your point. They most certainly have done things they're not authorized to do. As a m…
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had been arranged to award a National Security Medal, the highest decoration given in the U.S. for intelligence work. A few months earlier, December 15, 1954, President Eisenhower had signed a memorandum awarding this medal to CIA Officer K…
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held. The National Security Medal itself is secret. It can be awarded by the president at his discretion, unlike the Medal of Honor approved by Congress. Award citations and medal are classified, kept in CIA vaults for the duration of the i…
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to ever receive it. It would not be the first time Roosevelt came to the White House, nor indeed his first brush with exotic adventures. The grandson of Teddy Roosevelt, he had inherited his thrill of basically overthrowing countries. In 19…
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on a Pacific Island cruise slash spy mission in which they used a yachting expedition to conduct surveys. This time, they were surveying Japanese docks, fuel depots, and airfields in the Marshall Islands. Astor had reported to FDR personall…
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so outraged at the Soviet Union's invasion of Finland in the 1939-40 Winter War, that he recruited a Spanish Civil War-style international brigade, you know, paramilitary people, too late to help the Finns, but a fine adventure for him. Mon…
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Kim joined the War Information Office that while Bill Donovan would eventually turn into the OSS. Roosevelt's PhD dissertation in propaganda, yeah, propaganda in England's glorious revolution had been just the thing to appeal to Donovan who…
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history instructor. One day, while Bill asked Roosevelt what he thought of Iran, effectively giving Kim a portfolio he kept throughout his career. He went to the Eastern Mediterranean with his OSS boss, Stephen Penrose, serving as a top int…
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and then went on to Iran. His cousin and fellow OSS CIA agent, Archie Roosevelt, followed Kermit to northern Iran at the end of the war, affording a secondhand but still close look at an immediate post-war Iran, where the imperial governmen…
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Kermit Roosevelt served as the lead writer on an official history of the OSS, and he retreated to writing and academia afterwards, returning to Iran repeatedly beginning in 1947, when he went back to research a book on Arabs and oil. Three …
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thought Wisner was a little off his rocker, saying that he lacked depth and judgment, but he got on better with Tracy Barnes, who went to the same grooming school of Groton with Kermit Roosevelt. He also really liked Miles Copeland, former …
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Through Barnes, Kim quickly opened his own channel to Alan Dulles while he was still deputy director. It became clear to everyone that the Middle East would be Roosevelt's private preserve after a startling performance in Egypt. Kim knew Fa…
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There, Roosevelt reminded himself of his low opinion of Farouk, soon denigrating among agency insiders as the fat effer, not heffer, effer, and broadened his contacts to include the Free Officers Movement, a revolutionary group of quote-unq…
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encompassed Farouk's overthrow. You know, another regime change that no one ever talks about. Chief among the officers was one Nasser. It was referred to as Project FF for Fat Epper. In March of 1952, Miles Copeland, acting for Kim, told se…
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The seed was planted, blossomed into a coup. There's a lot more to that. We didn't just suggest it to them. We never do. Nasser became a member of the junta from which he emerged as an Egyptian leader. Kim Roosevelt became Nasser's gray emi…
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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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at work at Sullivan and Cromwell. In his pre-CIA days, Kermit Roosevelt, who began traveling in the Middle East for the CIA in 1950, was perfectly aware of American penetrations, British sensitivities, and Iranian politics. Meanwhile, the B…
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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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then CIA director, was very much in favor of a more aggressive plan. Smith discussed it at a meeting in Washington in December, even though Iran had not even been on the agenda. The session brought together key CIA officers and British offi…
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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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to overthrow the government. The paper condensed the much more detailed British plan. John Foster Dulles asked a few questions, and some of the State Department officers, like Ambassador Lloyd Henson, the guy that's going to be running the …
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keen on it, but they weren't invited to the meeting either. Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson, who knew only about certain parts of it, Kim said, was excited about it. Alan Dulles asked Roosevelt to be sure to cover two items in his brief…
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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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Wilbur and Copeland carried the Ajax paper to Beirut, where they met on 10 June with Kim Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt. He had traveled in to meet them from Washington, D.C. Senior Representative George Carroll and CIA Tehran staff. The maitr…
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A friend of Carol's from his OSS days in Nice gave them a quiet table and kept people away. Always helps to have friends. Roosevelt took the paper on to London with only minor changes. On his last evening in Beirut, he dined with the chief …
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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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He met with the Shah about 10 days later. Pavlovi still could not bring himself to do what he was being asked to do. In fact, the Shah was so frightened of surveillance that he took the American general into the palace and pulled a table in…
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This was spy work. To intensify tensions, the U.S. began deliberately avoiding meetings between its representatives and the Iranian government officials. Strategy of tension. Ambassador Lloyd Henderson stayed away in Salzburg, Austria. Gene…
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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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Kim Roosevelt saw him as a fanatic, a professional type with a high-pitched voice who passionately backed Mosaddegh out of a sense of guilt, or maybe just because he was actually the prime minister. They didn't trust him to pull off the cou…
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with the Iranian government. He left on August 2nd. Just hours earlier, Roosevelt had met with the Shah. The palace sent a car to pick Roosevelt up, bringing him to the palace at midnight. In the dead of night, through the gates, the CIA ma…
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The meeting went well enough and became the first of a series between the CIA and the Shah, with a British agent sometimes filling in. Roosevelt assured the Shah of both Eisenhower and Churchill's personal support if he dismissed Mossadegh.…
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Ike made a last-minute insert into a speech that he gave in Seattle and declared that the U.S. could not stand idly by while Iran fell to communism. Reassured, the Shah still did nothing. Working with a core of just a few CIA officers, Roos…
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hosted by station chief Jerry Miller. The Rome station for the CIA is sure a busy place. The consequences in Tehran on the day of the long-anticipated coup was not an event but a demand by the local plotters working with the CIA. They would…
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in search of Zahidi to contact the general who hid at the estate of a friend. Kim Roosevelt collected the general from his hideaway and brought him to the home of a CIA officer in Tehran. Later, the CIA station compiled a public statement p…
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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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Full-scale rioting broke out in Tehran on August 18th and 19th. Several hundred people died because the trained Gladio people are in town. A friendly newspaper published the text of the Shah's announcement appointing Zahidi, probably the sa…
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A dispatch actually had called off Ajax and SIS dispatched a similar instruction. But Roosevelt was not going to give up. He got the Rashidian brothers and other agents to mobilize more people. Again, many of them already pre-trained for th…
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and affected to the CIA, and how many of the stay-behind units were wearing Army uniforms but weren't Army at all. So ended Project AJAC, the first apparent U.S. covert victory. Kim Roosevelt received personal thanks from both Churchill and…
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got cut in on the profits, not the American people who paid for it. After the Iranian project, Kim Roosevelt returned to headquarters as assistant deputy director of the Directorate of Operations under Frank Wisner. He led his political act…
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debriefing about Project Ajax to the White House, quote, if we, the CIA, are ever going to try something like this again, we must be absolutely sure that the people and army want what we want. If not, you'd better give the job to the Marine…
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later that John Foster Dulles did not want to hear such advice. Roosevelt was offered command of the next one as well in Guatemala. Roosevelt turned down this offer because he's going to go work for, I don't know, an oil company. As a senio…
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The key conversations took place in Alan Dulles' office. In mid-afternoon on Friday, September 18th, Dulles brought together the players and concerned observers. Those present besides Dulles included General Cabell, Frank Wisner, Tracy Barn…
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had long been in touch with Nicaraguan leaders. General Cabell advised Dulles to double the skimpy $300,000 programmed for unexpected developments or contingencies. Dulles was fine with that too. They just rounded up the cost to a full $3 m…
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Present were General Cabell, Frank Wisner, Tracy Barnes, Kermit Roosevelt, J.C. King. Dulles worried that Eisenhower wanted quick results. The historian Richard Immerman and David Barrett have shown that the White House itself was being pre…
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I have a question or two for you about Iran, but I think normally you want to keep the formats to first address questions about the book first. Warhamster, go ahead. Howdy. Hi. I'm really struck by what you said after our show on Friday abo…
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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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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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Roosevelt was well regarded in the CIA. Even Kim Philby said, oddly enough, the quiet American five years referred to Roosevelt as the quiet American before it came out in the book. He was a courteous, soft-spoken Easterner with impeccable …
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was taken aback by the fate of the Iran's democracy was discussed in Foster's office that day. Quote, this was a grave decision to have made, he later observed. In fact, I was morally certain that about half of those present, if they had fe…
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And again, that's because they don't work for the U.S. government. They work for the oligarchs. And once the brothers fixed the administration on its course, they were confident they had the right man for the job. The Dulles' could see the …
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And for the past two years, he had spearheaded, listen to this, a secret CIA operation to organize underground resistant networks inside of Iran, burying crates of guns and cash in the desert to distribute to tribal warriors in case of a qu…
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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…
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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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with National Front and Tudor militants roaming throughout the capital, toppling royal statues and other symbols of the Shah rule. But after conferring with Roosevelt, U.S. Ambassador Lloyd Henderson, the Dulles brothers, other emissary in …
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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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This was the sort of daring high wire act that gave him the biggest professional thrill, and it left him with a taste for more. Dulles imagined himself as a character in a spy novel. Kim Kermit Roosevelt told CIA Middle East hand Miles Cope…
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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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which they say he left the CIA, but he did not. He was just embedded in a big oligarch company. Later, he became an international consultant representing the Shah in serving as a middleman for weapons manufacturing, doing business with Iran…
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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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When Roosevelt looked over at the Secretary of State midway through his presentation, Foster was leaning back leisurely in his chair, and it appeared for a moment that he might have been dozing. But then Roosevelt realized that Foster's eye…
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And of course, the convenience of sabotaging Jimmy Carter's administration after he had fired all of the CIA covert people like Kermit and all of them. So just keep that. I'm not saying that that's exactly true. There's convincing arguments…
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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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industrial intelligence is directly connected to the CIA because that's where they retire to, just like Kermit Roosevelt. They just take their government pension and then they go place themselves or they're placed into these corporate entit…
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who called on Dulles, the OSS veterans like Richard Helm, Frank Wisner, Tracy Barnes, and Kermit Roosevelt, all shared the view that this blissful reign of post-war peace would be short-lived, and the West must quickly gird itself to go to …
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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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I don't agree that they're not smart. They're smart in an evil way. And that has played out in just about every person that we look at in the CIA where their children, you know, the Roosevelt family where you had Kermit and his cousin in Ir…
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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 …
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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…
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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…