Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...produced on March 16. 1951 a secret analysis of the situation for Truman and his top officials called "The Current Crisis in Iran." The report noted increased turmoil in the country, the amount of support for the nationalization of the oil industry and the danger of the British worsening the situation by an "unyielding attitude." Yet the special estimate concluded confidently (and Truman marked this in the margin) that "We do not believe...the situation is such that there is imminent danger of the government's losing control, barring armed intervention of the USSR...
NEITHER Mossadeq nor the British were willing to compromise on the oil issue. This delay increased bitterness and weakened Iran's financial position, indeed so much so that Mossadeq asked Eisenhower in May, 1953 for increased aid, trying to force the president's hand by talk of a communist threat. Eisenhower refused on June 29. The president had already decided, with the consent of British prime minister Churchill, that Mossadeq "had to go" after a National Security Council meeting in March...
...different reason. The CIA did not provide the U.S. government with sufficient, accurate intelligence about both the growth of opposition and its causes--among them repressive domestic policies. This was because the CIA saw SAVAK, the Iranian secret police, as a friendly intelligence service on the lines of the British or French models with whom it exchanges information, rather than an instrument of political oppression akin...
...second suspect was a nondescript, self-styled "technical consultant" with a clipped British accent who arrived from Geneva a fortnight ago. He used the name Peter Scriver and carried British passport number 260896. After checking into the Hotel Mediterrannee in west Beirut, he rented a Volkswagen from the Lenacar agency. At about the same time, a blond, friendly man who called himself Roland Kolberg and carried Canadian passport number DS 104277 checked into the Royal Gardens Hotel, also in west Beirut, and rented a gray Simca, also from Lenacar Kolberg said he was a sales representative tor Regent Sheffield...
...ticket real estate offerings (minimum asking price: $250,000) whose total value on a given day may reach more than a billion dollars. Some of the items on the block at last month's market day an interest in an $80 million Palm Springs Calif, resort, a British island in the Pacific, a $10 million bank in Aspen, Colo and $850,000 worth of property in Dallas...