ARMISHMAAG Archives - Foundation for Iranian Studies

Williamson, General Ellis*

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:06:12 +0000

Educational background and early career; recollections of tenure of office in Iran; on the structure and operations of the Iranian armed forces; nature and extent of Iran’s arms procurements from the U.S.; pattern and extent of growth of the Iranian armed forces; military planning in Iran; recollections of Iran’s various military commanders; U.S. foreign policy towards Iran; U.S. views on the sale of arms to Iran; on the Shah, his strategic views and policies; U.S. interests in arms sales to Iran; Iran’s role in U.S.’s geostrategic considerations; on the political situation in Iran in the early 1970s.

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Twitchell, General Hamilton A.*

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:06:12 +0000

Personal history; early career; first experiences with Iran in 1962; impressions of Iran; views on the Iranian people and their leaders; on the Shah; role of the U.S. Military Advisory Group in Iran; relations between Iran and the U.S. State and Defense Departments; relations between ARMISH-MAAG and the U.S. Embassy in Tehran; U.S.’s security concerns in the Persian Gulf area; Shah’s plans for the Iranian armed forces; relations between the Iranian armed forces and the Iranian society; changes in the Iranian society in the 1960s; impressions of the Iranian armed forces and its leaders; projects implemented by ARMISH-MAAG in the Iranian armed forces; on the sale of equipment and arms by the U.S. to Iran; training and maintenance concerns; on the opposition to the Pahlavi regime in Iran; personal impressions of contemporary Iranian politics.

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Tufaniyan, General Hasan

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:06:12 +0000

Recollections of childhood in Iran; on conditions in Iran during the early Pahlavi period; Iranian armed forces and the occupation of Iran during WWII; history of Imperial Iranian Air Force; reminiscences of the leading Iranian military leaders; on the Shah and his leadership style; structure and mode of organization of the Iranian armed forces; Iran’s military relations with Pakistan; recollections of Iran’s various arms procurement deals; military’s procedures for acquiring new arms and equipment; myth and reality of personal profit making in arms deals; Shah’s reaction to the revolutionary upheaval; on the attempts of military commanders to compel the Shah to decisive action against revolutionary forces; Shah’s indecision before the revolutionary onslaught; on the Iranian military’s arms production and its contribution to the development of an industrial complex.

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Miklos, Jack*

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:07:25 +0000

Overview of U.S.-Iranian relations; U.S. policy towards Iran; on Iran’s policy of arms procurement; on the Shah and his leadership style; assessment of the political stability of the Pahlavi regime in the 1970s; on academia’s criticisms of U.S. policy towards Iran; U.S. information gathering in Iran; working of the U.S. Embassy in Iran; on Ambassadors Helms and Sullivan; political analysis at the Embassy in Tehran; debates between U.S. political officers at the Embassy on the future of Iranian politics; Iran’s regional policy; economic planning in Iran and its political implications; on CIA operations in Iran; relations between the Embassy staff and opposition groups; on U.S. policy making on Iran; on U.S.-Iranian economic and private investment relations in the 1970s; U.S. policy towards Iran during the Carter presidency; revolutionary movement and the U.S. reaction to it; balance-sheet of U.S.-Iranian relations.

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Meyer, Armin*

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:07:25 +0000

Relations between the Kennedy administration and Iran; U.S. views on General Teymur Bakhtiyar; Amini’s premiership, the Shah, and the U.S.; on the White Revolution; events of 1963-64; Iran-U.S. relations in the late 1960s; Shah’s views on the U.S. and its policy towards Iran; on U.S. intelligence activity in Iran; on arms sales to Iran; on the Shah and his leadership style; on U.S. policy making towards Iran; Nixon and Kissinger’s positions on Iran; assessment of Iranian politics in the late 1960s.

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Lehfeldt, William*

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:07:53 +0000

Educational background and early career; technical and economic relations between Iran and the U.S.; on social and economic change in Iran in the 1970s; U.S. economic and financial investments in Iran; U.S. Embassy in Iran during the MacArthur and Helms ambassadorships; on economic planning in Iran; on Iran’s role in the OPEC and the decision to raise the price of oil; U.S. government and business community’s reaction to Iran’s position on oil prices; relations between U.S. and Iran’s industrial sector, and economic planners; mode of operation of American private companies and contractors in Iran; assessment of Iran’s development policies; activities of General Electric in Iran; on Iran’s private sector; on the Revolution of 1978-79 and the reasons for the fall of the Pahlavi state.

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Bolster, Archie*

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:09:01 +0000

Recollections of childhood in Iran; U.S. Consulate in Tabriz and its functions; on the state of the agricultural sector in the 1950s and after the land reform in the 1960s; assessment of the White Revolution of 1963; workings of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran; extent of intelligence gathering by the Embassy; debates over the political future of Iran at the Embassy; U.S. Embassy and the National Front; contacts between the Embassy and the clergy in the 1960s; on the events of 1963-64; U.S. policy towards Iran; assessment of CIA operations in Iran; on the Shah and his leadership style; on the conclusions presented in James Bill’s The Eagle and the Lion; U.S.-Iranian strategic relations; U.S. policy-making on Iran.

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