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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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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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Arndt, Richard*

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

Impressions of Iran’s political and cultural climate in the 1960s; organization and functions of the U.S. Embassy in Iran; recollections of the ambassadorships of Armin Meyer and Douglas MacArthur III; on the debate over arms sales to Iran in the late 1960s; impressions of the Shah and other leading Iranian political and cultural figures; extent of awareness of the U.S. Embassy of the workings of Iranian politics; on cultural relations between Iran and the U.S.; balance-sheet of USIA’s operations in Iran; on the state of higher education in Iran during the 1970s; on the Fulbright Program in Iran; on the nature of U.S.-Iranian relations.

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