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...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...
...Foreign Service in 1929. State assigned him to study Russian, sent him to Moscow (along with Kennan) in the '30s. Russia fascinated Bohlen; he even became an expert balalaika player. By 1944 he was chief of Eastern European Affairs (Russia, Poland, the Baltic countries) in Washington. At Teheran and Yalta, Bohlen served as interpreter and aide for Franklin Roosevelt. He sat with F.D.R. and Averell Harriman, facing Stalin, Molotov and their interpreter, Pavlov, when the secret agreement on Manchuria was finally worked out. He subsequently became Counselor of the State Department, working closely on policy with Secretary Dean Acheson...
...with his hand and poured invective into the face of his secretary who was trembling and paling as if struck by heart failure." Wrote Biographer Boris Souvarine: "This repulsive character . . . cunning, crafty, treacherous but also brutal, violent, implacable ..." Said Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, who met Stalin at the Teheran conference: "Most of us, before we met him, thought he was a bandit leader who had pushed himself to the top of his government. That impression was wrong. We knew at once that we were dealing with a highly intelligent man . . ." Said Churchill: "Stalin left upon me an impression...
Talk & Doubletalk. In 1943, at a time when the Germans were still in Russia, Stalin was ready to talk with his wartime allies. "I think I can personally handle Stalin ..." confident Franklin Roosevelt had written to Winston Churchill. At Teheran, Roosevelt was persuaded by Stalin to take up residence in the Russian embassy. When Churchill raised the question of supervised elections in Poland, Stalin snapped: "You cannot do that. The Poles are an independent people and they would not want to have their election supervised by others." When Churchill mentioned the Vatican, Stalin asked: "How many divisions has the Pope...
When the crisis came in Iran, Eraser's first impulse was to hop to Teheran and "have things out" with Prime Minister Mossadegh. Foreign Office diplomats persuaded him not to interfere. When negotiations bogged down, and it looked as if Iran might have to be written off, he began to rebuild Anglo-Iranian by rushing refinery expansion elsewhere-but not on foreign soil where it might be grabbed...