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Intelligence & Government
Person
CIA
Israel
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CIA officer who orchestrated the 1953 coup that restored the Shah of Iran to power after the overthrow of Mohammed Mossadegh. 1916-02-16 2000-06-08 Buenos Aires, Argentina

Kermit Roosevelt was a Central Intelligence Agency officer who, along with Miles Copeland, helped the Iran military restore the Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran to power in 1953. This occurred after the Mohammad Reza Pahlavi had been overthrown by Mohammed Mossadegh during the turmoil that followed the nationalization of Iran oil.1

Footnotes

  1. Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. TrineDay, 1992. ↩︎