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in case there was a shootout. But he certainly ran in the circles of the CIA, along with Raymond Mason. The next item on the itinerary was one of the most exciting and pleasurable experiences of their worldwide trip. It was a meeting with t…
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If a serious investigation got underway, it was only a matter of time before the secret partnership behind ITSCO would be exposed, as well as its links to the training of Sadat security forces, its association with Israel, blah, blah, blah.…
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who was getting all of the Israeli weapons being sent into, hold on, let me go find Bridget. I think she just got knocked off. There we go. So again, Israel's in the thick of this. So the Israeli contact that was basically doing all of this…
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Student radicals had taken over the U.S. embassy in Tehran, and he got a phone call. Outside Washington, another middle-of-the-night phone call awakened the director of the CIA, Admiral Stansfield Turner. The CIA duty officer informed him t…
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Brzezinski ordered preparation for a rescue mission. Colonel Beckwith's unit would have the lead role. Major Burrus, plus a top planner to Washington, he ordered him to report to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They were told to obtain the lates…
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participate in the conversations. Neither the chairman, General David Jones, or Colonel Beckwith liked the initial plan. Both wanted more striking power. Delta only had 120 troopers, yet every man and pound of equipment inserted to give the…
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Just a week after the embassy seizure, an Air Force special operations expert, Colonel James Kyle, was summoned from his post in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to plan the airside of the mission. At first called Rice Bowl to suggest an Asian loca…
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They knew exactly what they were doing. You don't make those kind of mistakes. The former Iranian dictator remained kind of out of step to those who had become a new government in Iran. Brzezinski had conducted back-channel talks with moder…
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more people in Tehran angry. Among the consequences would be the demise of a moderate element of the Iranian government. The CIA had worries of their own. Even as controversy swirled around whether U.S. intelligence had failed to understand…
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the equipment and records in the U.S. embassy. Beyond the CIA, they faced imminent danger. The agency had played a major role in the Shah's Iran. Its station in Tehran, when he fell, had 125 people. The CIA had 125 people in Iran. That's no…
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large of a contingent, was dwarfed by the 10,000 U.S. military people in Iran. And why would they need that many people? Because they were running the SAVAK, the secret, not secret, the National Police Force slash intelligence slash torture…
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for normal Iranians under the Savak, under the Shah. All of those pictures that you see about how great it was in Tehran, it was not great for normal Iranians. It was great for people who were in the upper echelon that basically went along …
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Americans had been evacuated and only a tiny staff returned afterwards from the first one. During the interval between the Shah's fall and the embassy takeover, the CIA resorted to unusual tactics. Using both official and undercover station…
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with four agents shuttled among CIA safe houses in Tehran, not so much a station as a clandestine network. Among their notable achievements was the exfiltration of Raptor, a senior Iranian military officer, CIA's top spy in the Shah's gover…
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for the CIA, even as Ambassador Taylor and other brave Canadian diplomats hid the Americans in their homes. The Canadian offered to help them escape. In mid-December, Turner approved participation by a graphics and authentication branch of …
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in the Shah's government. To test the difficulty of moving in and around Tehran, Branch Chief Antonio Mendez carried out covert operations of his own. They created a fake movie production company that supposedly was filming a picture in Ira…
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Mendez focused on open travel throughout Tehran, even as Mendez set up his Hollywood company called Studio 6 Productions. His unit aided agency officers moving in and out of Tehran to prepare for the hostage rescue. Studio 6 advertised in H…
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for a science fiction movie set in the Middle East. And you have the entire Middle East, but we're going to do it in Iran. And nobody's going to suspect a thing. Mehrabad, considered the quickest way out, became the route of choice. And Men…
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1980. To preclude reprisals, Ambassador Taylor left too. As final preparations for the escape proceeded, Admiral Turner reviewed the main rescue plan. Based upon seizing an airfield where helicopters would be refueled before heading into Te…
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Charles Kogan, chief of the Near East Division, and Howard Hart would also have disputed the complaints. In truth, the CIA lacked resources in Tehran after the takeover. As Hart told, the joint task force leaders creating fresh networks wou…
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from retirement to lead the advance team. Much of the work focused on trying to learn about Tehran from the outside, interviewing Iranians who had left or had traveled recently. In Rome, Officer Floyd Paceman saw as many as 100 Iranians a d…
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Langley had reason to want the hostages freed. The Iranians had captured the CIA station in Tehran. They quickly identified Thomas Ahern as its chief and kept him in solitary confinement. Although CIA records in Tehran had been evacuated wh…
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You know, the one required in Iran. He spoke all of them but that one. He functioned effectively as a businessman starting a construction company. In meeting Colonel Beckwith, Bob's deliberate speech and mannerism reminded the Delta command…
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The trucks were to be driven by Iranian agents the CIA recruited elsewhere and sent back home. One wealthy Iranian volunteer drove to Langley headquarters in a Mercedes but had no knowledge of the standard gear shifts of trucks and had to b…
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He left Tehran repeatedly to brief CIA officials that were located both in Rome and Athens. Bob personally advised Charlie Beckwith, but Beckwith wanted all the data rechecked by someone he trusted. After the CIA rejected several Delta Forc…
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Richard Keith. A Virginian Meadows southern accent apparently struck the Iranian as Irish enough. Holy crap. He arrived in Tehran on April 21st, three days before the scheduled start of Eagle Claw. Just as Delta Force flew across the Atlant…
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They entered Iran separately and would be his drivers. It was tough moments as when one of the men failed to stop at a roadblock and they had to talk their way past an Iranian sergeant. But Meadows rechecked the Desert 2 site, modified the …
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I never saw a connection to that. I think it would have been too old. The stuff about Iran today is interesting. If you want to get a cinematographer, anyways, a movie that talks about this, the private rescue, there's a movie called Argo, …
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who did this, the one who did this was Albert Hakim, to the extent of putting his multi-tech corporation, which still functioned in Tehran, at the disposal of the Americans. The degree to which Iranian exiles considered this patriotic may b…
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went to General Sikord after having been turned down by him for lucrative business contracts. Now Sikord put Hakim in touch with his Air Force intelligence. A flood of reports came from Hakim and other sources. General Sikord said there wer…
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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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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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Roosevelt estimated the price to be no more than a couple hundred thousand dollars. The flap potential, he said, was ambiguous. If the spooks seriously miscalculated, the result would be disastrous in the entire Middle East. The project got…
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in Beirut. A few months earlier, the CIA station in Tehran had reported inquiries from a senior Iranian general as to whether the U.S. might support a coup against Mossadegh. In mid-March, Frank Wisner had sent the British a message informi…
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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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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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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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Two? Yes. Yes, it was. There to be contacted in mid-July by intelligence officers Darby Shire of the SIS and Stephen Meade for the CIA. The princess returned to Tehran without clearance from either the Shah or Mossadegh's government. Trigge…
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A Furman, which is a declaration on Mosaddegh. Another ordering the army to remain loyal and a letter declaring confidence in General Fazola Zahidi. He was the CIA's, SIS's pick to be the new leader. Schwarzkopf left for Tehran through Beir…
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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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The print story may be the weavings of a courier or perhaps only part of a larger tapestry. In any case, the advanced schedules prepared by Ajax planners supported that August 14th would be the critical day. Alan Dulles and his wife, Clover…
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By then, Colonel Nasari's Imperial Guard has sent squads to arrest Mosaddegh's supporters, but they missed Rahayi, who had already gone to the headquarters. Nasari was arrested himself when he attempted to serve the decree. In the morning, …
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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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CIA headquarters cabled regrets on the failure and advised Kim Roosevelt to leave Iran for his own safety. Instead, they broke out the vodka and kept it up. London rejected continuing appeals from the SIS to permit its officers to proceed i…
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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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all over Tehran. Throughout the afternoon, the CIA-backed forces consolidated their hold on the city. Now, the Shah returned from Italy and paraded triumphantly through the streets of Tehran. And you have to wonder, again, because there's t…
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After the war, there's obviously an American zone around Tehran. And so his parents goes to that area, which then allows them to move to the United States because they're now outside of the Soviet Union. And he's about 15 when this happens.…
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Paparazzi had followed them to the hotel. Back in Tehran, violent mobs controlled the streets of the capital. And after 28 years on the peacock throne, the Pavlovi dynasty seemed to be on the verge of collapse. Fearing for their lives, the …
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and we have learned there's no such thing as coincidence when it comes to the CIA. They both showed up at the reception desk at exactly the same time, Wisner told a CIA associate, and Dulles had to say politely, after you, your majesty. Dul…
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Foster argued that the case had national security implications and it quietly disappeared, leaving Big Oil unscathed. Furthermore, Allen Dulles had a business history with the Shah in 1949 while still employed at Sullivan and Cromwell. Dull…
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operation were prepared to go to any length to accomplish their task. Key officials in the military and government who remained loyal to Mossadegh were kidnapped and murdered. One of those officers, Mahmoud Afshartas, the officer in charge …
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as a message to anyone else who stood for their prime minister and their country. Other prominent loyalists had their throats slit and their bodies buried in the mountains. In the end, the Tudor party leaders feared Mosaddegh was undone by …
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As the Shah boarded his charter KLM airliner home, he knew that he was returning to a tempest in Iran where he was widely reviled by the citizens. But according to the same accounts, Dulles himself helped brace the shaky ruler by accompanyi…
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fearing that executing him would only make him a martyr. The regime sentenced him to three years of solitary confinement and then banished him to a rural village 60 miles north of Tehran, where he was under house arrest for the rest of his …
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from the AP portrayed him as an iron dictator who had terrorized his enemies and brought the country to economic chaos. Bastards. The ambulance carrying his body from the hospital in Tehran to his home went unnoticed by news. One news item …
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to their previous prime minister. The Shah refused Mosaddegh's final request to be buried in the main Tehran cemetery alongside the bodies of his supporters that had been killed during the insurrection. Instead, he was buried underneath his…
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from Risen's book, State of War. The Russian assignment from the CIA as part of Operation Merlin was to pose as an unemployed and greedy scientist who was willing to sell his soul and secrets for an atomic bomb to the highest bidder. By hoo…
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at the summit in Tehran in November of 1943. Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin had agreed in principle on several key aspects of military strategy in Europe, a plan for the post-war UN organization, and general outlines of policies on war cr…
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to what Roosevelt had personally promised to both Stalin and Churchill. But you can trace them both to Roosevelt himself. By 1944, FDR had grown so suspicious of the Foreign Service that he withheld even his own Secretary of State from deta…
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He met with Churchill, General Eisenhower and his staff and the U.S. staff at the European Advisory Commission. Anthony Eden provided Morgenthau with confidential notes taken at Tehran concerning the Soviets and the British and what the gra…
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By September 4th, Morgenthau's team at Treasury Department had drawn upon a detailed counterproposal. Its suggested post-surrender program for Germany, that's what it was called, suggested post-surrender program for Germany, began by laying…
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In mid-1984, Shackley flew to Los Angeles to see a potentially valuable source, Moniker Hashemi, it's H-A-S-H-E-M-I, who was a brigadier general in Iran in the days of the Shah and headed the counter-espionage section of the brutal Savak. H…
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the overtaking of our embassy in Tehran and the October surprise portion of that to hold them until after Reagan won the election. What are we to make of the tales told by spies? Maybe Shackley was working on behalf of President Bush, or ma…
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Khashoggi, the billionaire entrepreneur and famous arms dealer. Shackley afterward told congressional investigators he had gone to Hamburg simply to get together with Iranians who could supply him inside information on the Iran-Iraq war. Bu…
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Are we really surprised that even though crowds in Tehran streets would march daily shouting death to America, that Iranian leaders would be looking for ways to work with the Americans? That's not all that unusual for lots of reasons, and w…
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They set up a base in Tehran and retained Edwin Wilson to head an assassination program. The secret team banked its drug money at Nugent Hand Bank in Australia. It offered assassination services to Somoza in Nicaragua, the bad guy. The Shac…