Carter was tragically unlucky in his choice of emissaries. “Don’t worry about another embassy attack,” a Washington CIA official had recently reassured one of his colleagues in Iran. “The only thing that could trigger an attack would be if the Shah was let into the United States—and no one in this town is stupid enough to do that.” That would make Henry Kissinger, and Kissinger’s dear friend David Rockefeller, very stupid people indeed—for instead of fulfilling Carter’s request to tell the shah not to come, they set up a veritable lobbying office in a tony Manhattan town house to pressure
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