Three Kings: The Rise of an American Empire in the Middle East After World War II by Lloyd C. Gardner

Author:Lloyd C. Gardner
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2010-05-19T18:30:00+00:00

Herbert Hoover Jr. carried on the negotiations for the American side, both with the British and the Iranians. He reported on progress to the National Security Council on May 27, 1954. The two most difficult issues remaining with the Iranians were the matter of management, because the Iranians were still seen as incapable of providing efficient management control, and military aid. On the first question, the situation had reverted back to the pre-Mossadeq days. Iran would not have management control or the right to examine the books. The other question was the shah's demand for military aid as his price for signing off on the consortium agreement. And on this issue, he now had a stronger hand than he had held back in 1949 when he first launched his efforts to gain military support. That story would play out tragically over the next quarter century. He owed the restoration of his throne to the Americans, and they now had an investment in his success that led down an ultimately disastrous path.73

For years American participation in the coup was hidden from view. Reporters sought out General Schwarzkopf on the day of the restoration to ask him about Russian comments that he had been involved in the "present turmoil." Speaking at his Maplewood, New Jersey, home, the general said he had been in Tehran to visit old friends from World War II days: "I conducted no business there." Inside the CIA, however, the Iranian caper was recorded in a secret history as the high point of the agency's Cold War achievements. "It was a day that should never have ended," the secret history said of the day the coup succeeded, August 19, 1953. "For it carried with it such a sense of excitement, of satisfaction and of jubilation that it is doubtful whether any other can come up to it.""

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