CIA and Britain plan Mossadeq's overthrow in Iran
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- Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA whole source · open book
On February 18, 1953, the newly installed chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service arrived in Washington. Sir John Sinclair, a soft-spoken Scotsman known to the public as “C” and to his friends as “Sinbad,” met with Allen Dulles and proposed Kim Roosevelt as field commander for a coup.
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- The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War pp. 151-154 · open book
On March 4, 1953, the National Security Council met to consider overthrowing Mossadegh.