RARE TRUE 1ST Countercoup The Struggle For The Control Of Iran Kermit Roosevelt
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The information on this book has now become available through the Freedom of Information Act.!! RARE TRUE 1ST EDITION OF A BOOK RECALLED AND CHANGED BY GOVERNMENT TO REWRITE TO SUBVERT THE TRUTH OF WHAT HAPPENED IN IRAN IN 1953. Whole story can be found at: http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB468/ THIS BOOK HAS THE TRUE 1ST RELEASE PRINTING BEFORE THE BOOK WAS RECALLED. 7500 WERE RELEASED, WHEN IT WAS RECALLED 400 HAS BEEN SOLD OFF THE SHELVES AND MOST W...ERE RETURNED. THIS ONE WAS NOT. IT WAS NOT! IT WAS PURCHASED BY A FRIEND OF MINE FROM THE CORNELL CAMPUS STORE. Washington, DC, May 12, 2014 – As the Iranian revolution crested in 1978-1979, the CIA approved a memoir by Kermit Roosevelt, one of the architects of the 1953 coup against Iran's nationalist prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddeq. After first balking at the potential exposure of numerous "secrets, " the CIA relented when Roosevelt agreed to delete all mention of MI6 and made over 150 other changes that rendered the book "essentially a work of fiction, " according to recently declassified CIA files posted today by the National Security Archive.
The internal CIA deliberations over Roosevelt's Countercoup: The Struggle for the Control of Iran (McGraw-Hill, 1979 [sic]) were released through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and provided to the National Security Archive by the original requester, researcher Faisal A. Qureshi. They are posted here for the first time.
Missing from the documents is what happened when British Petroleum discovered that Countercoup (falsely) identified its predecessor, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), as the instigator of the operation. In fact, MI6 originated the plan. The oil concern threatened to file suit, which prompted publisher McGraw-Hill to pull virtually the entire print run of 7, 500 copies in 1979. 400 copies had already made it out to reviewers and bookstores, but most of those were returned.[1]
In a final twist, the revised version of the book hit the streets in August 1980 (retaining the 1979 date on the copyright page), but with the reinsertion of numerous references to "British intelligence" as the key player on the British side (replacing "AIOC"), even though disguising MI6's role had been one of the principal reasons for censoring the volume in the first place.[2] No official explanation has ever surfaced for this decision, which has directly undermined continuing claims by both U.S. and British intelligence that any acknowledgement of London's part in planning the coup would present a grave threat to the national security.
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The internal CIA deliberations over Roosevelt's Countercoup: The Struggle for the Control of Iran (McGraw-Hill, 1979 [sic]) were released through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and provided to the National Security Archive by the original requester, researcher Faisal A. Qureshi. They are posted here for the first time.
Missing from the documents is what happened when British Petroleum discovered that Countercoup (falsely) identified its predecessor, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), as the instigator of the operation. In fact, MI6 originated the plan. The oil concern threatened to file suit, which prompted publisher McGraw-Hill to pull virtually the entire print run of 7, 500 copies in 1979. 400 copies had already made it out to reviewers and bookstores, but most of those were returned.[1]
In a final twist, the revised version of the book hit the streets in August 1980 (retaining the 1979 date on the copyright page), but with the reinsertion of numerous references to "British intelligence" as the key player on the British side (replacing "AIOC"), even though disguising MI6's role had been one of the principal reasons for censoring the volume in the first place.[2] No official explanation has ever surfaced for this decision, which has directly undermined continuing claims by both U.S. and British intelligence that any acknowledgement of London's part in planning the coup would present a grave threat to the national security.
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