Word: mossadegh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When it seemed that political advantage could be gained, Dulles sometimes risked operations that he supervised with cheerful confidence. In 1953, the CIA helped to depose Iran's leftist Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, making way for the return of pro-Western Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi from exile in Rome. The next year, when the regime of Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán seemed increasingly proCommunist, the CIA stage-managed a civil war that ended in Arbenz's overthrow. CIA agents dug a tunnel from West to East Berlin that succeeded in intercepting Communist communications until it was discovered...
...money to spend, and the unqualified cold-war backing of Washington, which saw him mainly as an anti-Communist with a long border with Russia. For ten unremarkable years, he lived in luxurious disdain of the welfare of his countrymen. Then along came a crusty old nationalist named Mohammed Mossadegh, who as Premier nearly overthrew the Shah in 1953 and, in the process, woke him up. "Suddenly, I realized that we were not only standing still but losing ground," says the Shah. "We had to develop...
...information by paying a paltry $50 to a Hungarian going home for a visit so that he will take a short drive out of his way to check on the number of Russian troops in Szekes-fehervar. Or they may be arranging a revolution-as they did when Premier Mossadegh was deposed in 1953, or when Colonel Jacobo Arbenz was over thrown in Guatemala...
Because of the worldwide oil glut and Iraq's shortage of skilled technicians, some Western oilmen insist that Kassem's venture is foredoomed to failure. But unlike Iran's Mossadegh. Kassem has prudently allowed the foreign oil company to continue production, thus assuring himself of a continuing income while he dickers for help in getting his own company on its feet. And help may not be hard to find. The Soviet Union might aid Kassem simply for political advantage. And in Rome sits hawk-faced Enrico Mattei, boss of Italy's state petroleum monopoly, who delights...
last week threw down the boldest chal lenge to Western oilmen since Iran's Mohammed Mossadegh expropriated the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. in 1951. Kassem's move : the establishment of a government-owned company to produce and market Iraqi...