Year 1953: He told me that a few weeks before the 1953 coup,
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- All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror whole source · open book
He told me that a few weeks before the 1953 coup, he attended a reception at the home of an Iranian diplomat in Washington and overheard the wife of Colonel Abbas Farzanegan, a military attaché who was on the CIA’s secret payroll, boast that her husband was involved in a plot that would soon make him a cabinet minister. The next morning Mahmoud Mossadegh cabled this intelligence home to his grandfather. “Later on, after the coup, I asked him if he had received my cable.
chapter: Epilogue