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Code No. 3. At headquarters, officers found inside Ali's suitcase a detailed plan of Saadabad Palace, the Shah's summer home, and a complete schedule of the guards' movements. There were other papers, mostly in three codes. Ali, a dedicated Communist, was questioned for eight days before he broke. At last, on the night of Aug. 24, he admitted that the Tudeh had an organization inside the army officers' corps. On Aug. 30, cryptographers cracked two of the codes, but the third, an elaborate trigonometric cipher, would not give. Two colonels went to work night...
...weeks ago, when the young (33) Shah went out to Mehrabad airport to greet his Queen, returning from Rome, his step was firm, his shoulders back. He had given up sleeping pills, taken up tennis again and was working hard. He was spending long hours in his Saadabad Palace office, conferring daily with his new Premier, Fazhollah Zahedi, and with U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson...
Later he received newsmen in the fountain-echoing garden of Saadabad Palace and spoke some brutal truths: "The treasury is empty. We need help in the next few days. We do not ask any nation in particular, and we are not beggars, but if help does not come, we will have a nightmarish struggle." In the streets, Americans who had recently been greeted with cries of "Americans, go home," now found themselves welcomed happily by Iranians who let them know that the Iranians had done all of this for them and now counted on help from...