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Kermit Roosevelt seemed a natural choice to organize the covert operation. He was a historian by training (his doctoral dissertation was on "Psychological Techniques in the English Civil Wars") and during the war he was assigned to the Near East where he served in army intelligence. Later he was recruited by the CIA and in early 1953 was station chief at Beirut in the Lebanon. Roosevelt's Eastern manner was a perfect facade to hide his role as a covert operator--"the last person you would expect to be up to his neck in dirty tricks" as Kim Philby...
Fortunately, in this most recent crisis, the Carter administration resisted the temptation to intervene, recognizing the futility of overt action, and lacking the facilities, or the will for any covert operations to date. But government statements of support, matched by the editorial expressions of major papers across the country mounted an attempt to alter the will of the Iranian people. Heavy-handed gestures including the expansion of U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf area further alienated Iranians who had once been inspired by the Carter human rights stance. Even the relatively limited efforts by public and private U.S. organizations...
...clan, he's got the responsibility for a lot of families. Charisma, personal power, whatever it is that defines the Kennedys as Kennedys--it's a two-edged sword. People are either won over passionately, see Teddy as the last liberal, the only strong leader left, the covert hope of the Democratic Socialists, or they see Teddy as part of a massive, global conspiracy of Mafiosi, British bankers, Zionists, Communists, neo-Platonists, and Zoroastrians. Or they see him as Evil Incarnate...
...headquarters in Langley, Va. Nonetheless, intelligence community members claim that in 1978 the CIA was so short-handed it could not assign people to investigate two suspicious situations abroad. Just what they involved was not disclosed, but one covert official commented: "It doesn't do you any good to know how many tanks are at the border if you don't know what is going to be done with them...
...powers could do it, too. The intelligence agencies had the covert capabilities, and the corporations had the technology and the necessary finance capital. They both had the global organizational structures to implement the plan...