THE BILLION-DOLLAR MYSTERY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000300020072-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2000
• Sequence Number: 72
• Publication Date: April 12, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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which have been spread on the public record in the course of this proceed- ernment. The'Khaibar Khan's father, ',c
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American cash that has been funneled in fn Ira,, ch,rn Wn,?l.l Ub.,,. ll
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be and doubtless are entirely plausible and satisfactory explanations-. other Khans protested-and were
but rather in raising the question whether the enormous amount of for promptly hanged. After that, oil
eign aid received by Iran from the United States has resulted in imp'rov- revenues from southern Iran went
Reza ralllavt ruled seventeen years
Iranians and Americans-Editors -before making the mistake that ' ?''
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'palace of the Shah, wanted ,,,a? .1-41 an Shah.
to get '. honorary chairman of United Pa-'? .,
copies of those checks, if only to . triots for Ju
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,..tars of American Prnnnmir ni.i ho.i held title 'to the oil-rich lands of , especially the Americans-seem to
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revealed by their previous espio mpmhpra of t1- tribes th.a? .ar;.rt,. ,i_? Prnvn . the Firer. ?U Alit,... ..-.-I
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estern world. The
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, y envisioned
` 1 Ian Fleming in his most inven- 'a courtly appearing ruler best Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi as
tive moments never concocted a . known to readers of the tabloids. the kind of constitutional, mon-.
real-life drama that was taking Princess Snraaya is the son _'V Kin
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--_? .. ajr ,JIaLIgVC Amu Lee manipulation, -ne concept had Its genesis in
cross, mired in greed. On the one of newer to the nraint
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er of the Shah; on the other, the . seat himself u
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dispossessed of their lands, their he turned covetous eyes on south- Cordell Hull on January 12, 1944:
oil, their revenues by the Pahlavi. ern Iran where the Khans of the
family, its palace guard and ' its' ruling. tribes had made their sepa? ?ran Is definitely a very back-
American-equipped army., ;::..rate ?, deals with?oreign oii com?. ward nation. it consists really of a 1
aerial of, tribes, and 90 per cent' of
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