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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

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