the Shah’s historical legitimacy had proved far more compelling than Mossadegh’s popularity, which was shaky at best. But Roosevelt sensed that Dulles was not terribly interested in that part of his report. In fact, even as Roosevelt was briefing the top national security people about Iran, planning was going ahead on the next coup—one that they hoped would topple the leftist government of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala. In fact, soon after Roosevelt’s return, he was offered the job of running the new covert operation, which confirmed his earlier suspicions about Foster Dulles’s eagerness to
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