MOSCOW IN PERSIAN TO IRAN 1100 24 JUL 61

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200130087-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 87
• Publication Date: July 24, 1961
• Content Type: TRANS

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CIA ACTIVITES IN IRAN
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(TEXT) DEAR LI'STENER4, TM AMERICAN MAGAZINE TUE DITII' C911 SN"SLY
DEVOTED THE WHOLE OF ONE OF ITS ISSUES TO CHE ACTIVITIES OF 'rHE AMERICAN
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY AND ITS HEAD ALLEN DULLES. IN S THI
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THE SECRETS WHICH COVER THE OFFICE ,OF ALLEN- DULLES. ARE EXPO AND
`ACTIVITIES AND PLOTS OF INCITEMENT ,OF THE CIA IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES' t,
INCLUDING IRAN, ARE BROUGHT TO-LIGHT.
IN 1953 TILE CIA. UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF ALLEN DULLES. DIRECTLY
ARRANGED A COUP D'ETAT FOR THE OVERTHROW OF DR. MOSSADEQ, THE IRANIAN
PREMIER WHO WANTED TO CARRY OUT A LNM. FAVORABLE ItOR' IRAN. TAE LAW
NATIONALIZING THE OIL INDUSTRY. IT OVERTHREW THE MQ$ADDEQ GOVERNMENT
AND RETURNED THE SHAH TO IRAN, GIVING THE PRECIOUS i~?)L ,` OIL THE
IMPERIALISTS. THIS IS HOW THINGS HAPPENED:
ON 10 AUGUST 1953 ALLEN E ULLES FLEW TO ONE OF THE ALPS RESORTS
IN SWITZERLAND. IT WAS ANNOUNCED THAT HE AND.HIS WIFE WERE TO'REST
THERE. SQON LOY HENDERSON, THE AMERICAN AMBASSAIOR -IN IRAN AT THAT
TIME, JOINED DULLES. THIS SMALL PEACEFQ SWISS 'PO/N, HAD DEVELOPED
A SPECIAL ATTRACTION. IT WAS NOT LONG BEFORE ' PRINCESS ,ASHRAF PAHLAVI$,
THE SHAH'S SISTER, ALSO LEFT TEHERAN FOR THAT PLACE BY AIR*, AT THIA
11 ME GENERAL SCHWARZKOPF, WHO DURING THE 'YEARS 1942 TO 1948 BAD BEEN '
THE SHALE'S POLICE ADVISER, WENT TO IRAN. FROM AMERICA.
ALLEN DULLES, IN ORDER TO REPLACE PREMIER MOSSADEQ WITH & SAFE
PERSON, ARRANGED THE PRELIMARIES IFOR THE COUP D'ETAT AMERICAN ARMS
AND MONEY WERE POURED 'INTO IRAN 19 MILLION DOLLARS. FROM THE 'SECRET .
BUDGET OF THE. CIA WAS DEVOTED TO, ACCOMPLISHING At Job IN IRAN.
19 AUGUST 1953', IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PLANS DRAWN.UP AT SECRET HIDEOUTS
OF THE CIA, A MILITARY COUP D'ETAT TOOK .PL ,IN,OiT848RAN, A$ ZAHEDI,
AN OLD FRIEND OF GENERAL SCHWA RTZKOP ', 890A {y,,C MINI ST iR.
THE BOSSES OF THE AMERICAN CIA, RUNE WITH PRIDE . AFTER TO
CUNNINGLY SUCCESSFUL COUP D'ETAr' HAD BEEN'`CARRIED- OUT. BEGAN TO INDUL&,GB
1N PUBLIC BOASTING AND REJOICING. BUT THEE, AFTEREFFECTS OF THE COUP' r
DE'ETA'r WERE NOT SUCH AS TO BRING MUCH HAPPINESS. AMERICA SPENT BILLIONS
OF DOLLARS TO STRENGTHEN THE ANTICOMMUNIST GOVERNMENT OF THE SHAH `IN ,
IRAN, BUT THE AMERICAN SENATE MMISSION IN11957 BROUGHT TO LIGHx THAT
DURING FIVE YEARS 250 MILLION D ` RS HAD BEEN GIVEN TO IRAN AS AID-
BUT THE IRANIANS-THEMSELVES HAD ; BENEFITED` FROM. IT, IN 'ANY WAY. ?THE
N OFFICIALS 'WASTED THE MONEY' SO BLATANTLY THAT ,IRAN' S
TREACHEROUS IRANIA
BUDGET DEFICIT BECAME A CIRONIC DISEASE. AT THE., SANE TIME, THE SENATE
COMMISSION CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT IRAN COULD FOSTER IT'S INDUSRIES
FINANCIALLY THROUGH INCOME FROM OIL REVENUES.
DESPITE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF-DOLLARS OF AMERICAN AID, IRAN. IS
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