Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Archives - Foundation for Iranian Studies

Yatsevitch, Colonel Gratian*

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

Educational background; beginnings of career at CIA; CIA’s objectives and operations in Iran in the 1950s; recollections of Allen Dulles; U.S. strategic interest in Iran in the 1950s; impressions of the Shah, and memories of their meetings; on the Shah’s goals and objectives; CIA’s views on the Shah; relations between the U.S. and Iran during the Eisenhower administration; recollections of the early years of SAVAK and General Teymur Bakhtiyar; recollections of Ambassadors Chapin, Wailes and Holmes, and their relations with the Shah; on social and economic change in Iran; debates between CIA analysts over political stability in Iran; U.S. contacts with and assessments of the opposition to the Shah in the 1950s and 1960s; on General Qarane’i’s alleged coup plans; extent of the loyalty of the armed forces to the Shah in the 1950s and 1960s; relations between the National Front and the Kennedy administration; on U.S. and the premiership of Ali Amini; working of oil consortiums in Iran; on the riots at Tehran University in 1961; recollections of Amir Asadollah Alam and Hasan Arsanjani; on the White Revolution of 1963; Johnson’s trip to Iran; Iran-Soviet relations; Israel’s relations with Iran; extent of cooperations between CIA and SAVAK; on U.S. listening posts in Iran; on events of 1963-64; economic development and corruption.

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Yar-Afshar, Parviz

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

Educational background, and recollections of early childhood; recollections of General Fazlollah Zahedi; General Zahedi’s personal characteristics and stature in the armed forces; reasons for Zahedi’s opposition to Mosaddeq’s policies; General Zahedi’s planning of the military operations which led to the removal of the Mosaddeq government; roles of the Shah and CIA in General Zahedi’s plans; on General Zahedi’s paramount role in the events of 1953; on the Shah’s personal traits and leadership style; on the working of the Senate; on the various members of the Iranian political elite; recollections of the White Revolution of 1963 and its social ramifications; memories of arrest and imprisonment after the Revolution of 1978-79.

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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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Ramsbotham, Sir Peter

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

Recollections of the events of 1953; on the attitude of Iranians towards the British; relations between Iran and Great Britain in the 1970s; on the Shah’s personal traits; Shah’s sensitivity to British views; Iran’s position on the Persian Gulf in the early 1970s; on various Iranian government officials; on the causes of the Revolution of 1978-79; impact of westernization on Iranian politics; on the Twenty Five Hundred Years of Monarchy Celebrations; on Britain’s refusal to admit the Shah into Britain after the Revolution.

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Oney, Earnest R.

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

Family and educational background; early career at CIA; on analysis of Iranian affairs at CIA and reasons for U.S. policy toward Mosaddeq; CIA’s information on the Tudeh Party in the 1950s; on the Shah and General Zahedi in 1951-53; on Operation Ajax; on U.S. and the National Front after 1953; on General Teymur Bakhtiyar and his removal from office; on the Amini Government; on the White Revolution; on the formation, structure and mission of SAVAK; on Generals Hasan Alavi Kiya and Hasan Pakravan; on the causes and consequences of the events of 1963-64; on CIA’s information on the Iranian ulama; the nature of CIA’s intelligence interests in Iran in the 1970s; on Soviet activities among the ulama in the 1970s; on General Hosein Fardust; on U.S. listening posts in Iran; on guerrilla movements in Iran in the 1970s; reasons for the collapse of SAVAK and the military during the Revolution; on the Confederation of Iranian Students; on General Ne`matollah Nasiri; on Richard Helms and William Sullivan as ambassadors to Iran; CIA’s psychological profile of the Shah; on the Shah’s illness; guidelines for intelligence gathering on Iran in the 1970s; reflections on CIA’s analyses on Iran.

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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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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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Komer, Robert*

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

Educational history and early career; working of the National Security Council during the Kennedy presidency; relations between the Shah and President Kennedy; on the Shah’s request for arms from the Kennedy administration; on the origins of the White Revolution; Kenneth Hansen and U.S.’s economic reform program for Iran; U.S.’s position on the Shah’s reform initiative; recollections of trip to Iran with Vice President Johnson; use of arms sales to influence the Shah; Iran’s place in U.S.’s geostrategic concerns; relations between President Kennedy and Ali Amini; CIA’s views on Iranian politics in the 1960s.

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