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Shah on worst years of his life: Goode, op. cit., p. 155.
Bakhtiar visits Mossadegh’s grave: Goode, ibid., p. xiii.
Khomeini rants at Bakhtiar: Farmanfarmaian, op. cit., p. 452.
Ardeshir Zahedi denies CIA involvement: Zahedi, Ardeshir, “What Really Happened,”
www.ardeshirzahedi.com
.
Shaban receives Cadillac: Diba, op. cit., p. 190.
Ashraf on unsubstantiated allegations: Pahlavi, Ashraf,
Faces in a Mirror
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1980), p. xiv.
Dulles on Woodhouse’s nice little egg: Dorril, op. cit., p. 596.
Woodhouse on first step toward catastrophe: Woodhouse, op. cit., p. 131.
Morrison recalls little about Iran: Morrison, op. cit., pp. 281–282.
Eden defends decision not to wage war: Eden, op. cit., pp. 246–247.
Eden on Morrison: Harris, Kenneth,
Attlee
(London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1982), p. 472.
Churchill considers Ajax finest operation: Service History, op. cit., p. 81.
Roosevelt meets Churchill: Roosevelt, op. cit., p. 207.
Eisenhower awards medal to Roosevelt: Prados, op. cit., pp. 91–92.
Hostage-taker fears another coup: Zahrani, Mostafa T., “The Coup That Changed the Middle East: Mossadeq v. the CIA in Retrospect,” in
World Policy Journal
(Summer 2002).
Khamenei says his movement not like Mossadegh’s: Abrahamian article, op. cit.
Iranian intellectual on legacy of coup: Zahrani article in
World Policy Journal
, op. cit.
Waller defends coup: Statement to conference in Oxford, England, June 10, 2002.
Falle on legacy: Falle, op. cit., p. 81.
Tudeh strength exaggerated: Gasiorowski article in Gasiorowski and Byrne, op. cit.; Behrooz, “The 1953 Coup in Iran and the Legacy of the Tudeh,” in Gasiorowski and Byrne, ibid.; and Abrahamian article in
Science & Society
, op. cit.
Acheson on losing so much so stupidly: Acheson, op. cit., p. 503.
Acheson on Mossadegh’s responsibility: Acheson, ibid., p. 504.
Nixon on Acheson’s cowardly college:
New York Times
, November 2, 1952.
Dulles purrs: Roosevelt, op. cit., p. 209.
Bakhtiar says Mossadegh should have shot plotters:
Mossadegh
(video), op. cit.
CIA says some facts will never be known: Service History, op. cit., p. 67.
Eisenhower meets Shah:
New York Times
, December 15, 1959.
Eisenhower refers obliquely to coup: Eisenhower, Dwight, Mandate for Change: The White House Years, 1953–1956 (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1963), p. 164; and Ambrose, Stephen,
Eisenhower: The President
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984), p. 129.
Albright acknowledges American responsibility:
New York Times
, March 18, 2000.
Bill on legacy: Bill, op. cit., pp. 288–289.
Cottam on legacy: Cottam,
Iran and the United States
, op. cit., pp. 261–263.
Gasiorowski on legacy: Gasiorowski article in
International Journal
, op. cit.
Goode on legacy: Goode, op. cit., p. 124.
Heiss on legacy: Heiss, op. cit., pp. 234–238.
Keddie on legacy: Keddie, op. cit., pp. 142, 275–276.
Louis on legacy: Bill and Louis, op. cit., pp. 255–256.
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