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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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Tiger, M. Gordon

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

Recollections of early experiences with Iran in the 1950s; on the working of the U.S. Embassy in Iran in the 1950s and early 1960s; Iranian economy in the 1950s; impact of the events of 1953 on U.S.-Iranian relations; on the Point Four Program in Iran; CIA’s assessment of the opposition to the Shah in the 1960s; relations between Iran and Israel in the 1950s; U.S.-Iranian relations in the 1950s; on Secretary McNamara’s position on arms sales to Iran; on Ambassadors Wailes and Holmes; Robert Kennedy’s meeting with student dissidents and its effect on U.S.-Iranian relations; U.S. policy towards Iran in the 1960s; U.S. contacts with Iranian opposition groups; U.S. aid to Iran in the 1960s; on the Shah’s threat to purchase arms from the Soviet Union; effect of the White Revolution on Iranian politics and U.S.-Iranian relations.

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Rusk, Dean*

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:06:36 +0000

Recollections of the Azarbayjan Crisis of 1945-46; U.S.-Iran relations during the Kennedy administration; role of CENTO in U.S.-Iranian relations; disputes between the Kennedy administration and the Iranian government on arms sales to Iran; U.S. and the White Revolution; U.S. policy towards the Shah in the 1960s; Iran in U.S. geopolitical considerations; U.S. policy on Iran during the Johnson administration.

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Parsons, Sir Anthony

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:07:02 +0000

Early contacts with Iran; on the events of 1953 and the formation of the Baghdad Pact; on the Shah’s role in resolving the Bahrain issue; Britain’s economic interests in Iran in the 1970s; on Britain’s departure from the Persian Gulf in 1971; Britain’s commercial, industrial and military relations with Iran; recollections of Prime Minister Hoveyda; personal impressions of the Shah and his leadership style; Shah’s view of British policy on Iran; on Iranians’ distrust of the British; recollections of the politicization of university campuses in Iran; on charges of Britain’s complicity in the Iranian Revolution; on Iranian politics in the late 1970s; on various Iranian public figures; on the roots of the Revolution; impressions of Westernization of Iran and its political consequences; assessment of industrial development in Iran; recollections of Iranian politics during the revolutionary upheaval; Shah’s consultations with the interviewee and Ambassador Sullivan; Britain’s position on the Shah’s decision to leave Iran; on the B.B.C.’s alleged role in inciting opposition to the Shah; on Queen Farah.

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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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MacArthur, Douglas II*

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

Views on the Shah; relations between Iran and the U.S. in the early 1970s; on Iran’s procurement of military arms and equipment from the U.S.; on military relations and contact between Iran and the U.S.; U.S. policy towards Iran during the Nixon administration; assessment of the Iranian economy in the early 1970s; recollection of an attempt by the Fada’iyan-e Khalq guerillas to kidnap him; rise in the price of oil and its effect on U.S.-Iranian relations; on the role of the National Front in the politics of the early 1970s; on Iran’s exertion of power in the Persian Gulf in the 1970s; Iran’s regional policy.

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Ma’sumi-Na’ini, General Abdol-Majid

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

Family and educational background; recollections of the Officers’ Training College; recollections of the military campaigns against the Bakhtiyari tribes in Esfahan; recollections of Generals Teymur Bakhtiyar, Hosein Azmudeh and Abdollah Hedayat; on corruption in the armed forces; relations between the armed forces and the Pan-Iranist Party; on the idea of creating a “national resistance movement” against possible future foreign occupation; on the dismissal of General Abdollah Hedayat and other generals in the 1960s; on the battle of Semirom; on judicial structure and process in the military; on the trial of the Tudeh officers; on the events of 1953; on Generals Fazlollah Zahedi, Hasan Arfa` and Haji Ali Razmara; trial of separatist elements in Azarbayjan; on SAVAK and military intelligence; on General Kiya; serving as military attache in Baghdad; serving with CENTO; structure of the armed forces; arms procurement; on Generals Mohammad Khatami and Hasan Tufaniyan; armed forces in the months before the Revolution; on the Bakhtiyar government; on the armed forces’ declaration of neutrality in February 1979; armed forces in the months after the Revolution.

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