Word: mossadegh
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Next on Dulles' schedule: Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Greece, Libya. Conspicuously absent: Mossadegh's Iran, which Dulles will fly over but not visit. Reported reason: the U.S. Secret Service rejected strife-torn Iran as unsafe for the visitors...
...tanker Nissho Mam as she steamed into Tokyo Bay stood Captain Tatsuo Nitta, flashing a gold-toothed smile. He had just completed a three-week voyage from Abadan, bringing to Japan her first petroleum shipment (15,300 long tons of diesel oil and automobile gasoline) from Premier Mossadegh's nationalized oilfields. At a special introductory price averaging 5.35^ a gallon, he had quite a bargain. Waiting to receive Skipper Nitta at the Kawasaki dock was a cluster of Iranian traders...
Khaneghah Avenue was a strange alley for Iran's top cop to venture into unprotected. Some of Mossadegh's bitterest enemies made their headquarters there, including the Retired Officers' Association and the Fascist-like Sumka Party. But it is also home to several notorious easy women, and Tough Cop Afshartous had a reputation for philandering...
...first the search concentrated on the women. The principal pro-Mossadegh daily, Bakhtar-e-Emruz, hinted broadly: "It is known that the general did not go out of his way to avoid the company of women." The police picked up Tamara, a faded femme fatale, Teheran's top belly dancer two decades ago, along with another dancer named Helene and a tall, hard Rumanian barmaid called Nelly. But they knew nothing, and were released. Then the cops went looking for-but could not find-General Fazlollah Zahedi, head of the Retired Officers' Association and an avowed anti-Mossadegh...
Looking for Hossain. Patiently cops plodded from door to door, looking up all the neighborhood Hossains, a job comparable to checking all the Joes on Chicago's South Side. When they came to the home of Politician Hossain Khatibi, once a prominent supporter of Mossadegh and now loudly in opposition, they were bothered by the heavy smell of perfume mixed with another, hard-to-place odor. Under questioning, the servants cracked: the other smell, which the perfume was intended to hide, was chloroform...