Suck on 52 coup in Iran

[Peter K.]

In college, during the Gulf War I had read a book by Stephen Ambrose on
America's foreign policy after World War II for a course on international
politics. Rather ignorant at the time, I was struck by the fact that
Schwarzkopf organized the Shah's imperial guard for the coup. Don't ask me
why, but I had thought it was the same Schwarzkopf who was then briefing the
press on the war.

Peter


>Hi,
>
>Well, one hates to admit one's class roots are showing, but Schwarzkopf the
>father used to sit in my parent's living room once a year with his drinking
>buddies in the late 1950s and swap tales about overthrowing the Iranian
>government and installing the Shah, so I grew up thinking it was common
>knowledge.
>
>:-)
>
>Now about the family silk mill in Paterson, NJ...
>
>-Chip Berlet
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