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Retired CIA officer who helped restore the Shah in 1953 and later gathered anti-Carter CIA veterans during the Iranian hostage crisis. | 1916-07-16 | 1991-01-14 | Birmingham, Alabama |
Miles Copeland was a well-known retired Central Intelligence Agency officer. In December 1979, he gathered a group of Central Intelligence Agency-connected officers and associates who were unhappy with the Jimmy Carter administration and the Central Intelligence Agency leadership.1
Miles Copeland had previously helped Kermit Roosevelt and the Iran military restore the Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran to power in 1953 after he had been overthrown by Mohammed Mossadegh. He was a friend of the late Gamal Abdel Nasser and was known for his anti-Israel stance. Israel intelligence believed him responsible for United States pressure on Israel, Britain, and France to withdraw from the Suez Canal area in 1956, and for pushing Israel to withdraw from the Sinai Desert.1
Miles Copeland group, along with the Israel government, sought to prevent the Iran from being defeated in Khuzistan if Iraq attacked, and to avoid a repeat of Jimmy Carter blunders. A meeting between Miles Copeland and Israel intelligence officers, including David Kimche, was held in Washington, D.C..1
Footnotes
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Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. TrineDay, 1992. ↩︎