Kermit Roosevelt

Yeah, yeah.

Kermit Roosevelt was the one who claimed credit for it and was dining off of that for decades.

And I'm sure we provided a lot of

money,

event, I tell this because Den of Spies is not inaccurate.

The Roosevelt family was involved, along with the British intelligence, in overthrowing Mossadegh, and he spent the rest of his life under house arrest.

It's a tragedy that's never been corrected.

Craig, did they talk about Mossadegh when you were there?

And when that happened, when Mossadegh wanted... wanted to nationalize the oil industry.

That was the last straw, and the coup went into operation.

And as you say, it was led by the Roosevelt family.

Kermit Roosevelt and his brother, or was it his cousin, Archibald Roosevelt, were among the big plotters who put the coup d'etat that overthrew Mossadegh, and they put that coup into place.

The United States, at risk of losing influence in the Middle East, turned to the CIA.

Kermit Roosevelt, grandson to Teddy, was the CIA's best Middle Eastern operative.

Yes, and he runs Operation Ajax, which, uh, engages in this regime change

He had himself smuggled into the palace in Tehran, where he met secretly with Reza Pahlavi, the young Shah.

No, it doesn't.

Again, they, they did not release the telegrams until about 2013 between Kermit Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, and Churchill saying we have to overthrow the government.

They did not release them, and the only newspaper I saw reporting it was the Financial Times.

And again, look at the clowns.

I hate to put it to you this way, but it's a British problem from Operation Boot and British Petroleum, which was UK's indignation that Iran would nationalize its own oil industry.

And with help from the United States and Kermit Roosevelt and Operation Ajax, which was our aid of Britain.

But that Britain doesn't exist.

So modern Britain has no idea of 1950s or 60s Britain.

The animal existed in Western consciousness, if it existed at all, as a vague curiosity described in a handful of scientific papers that only specialists would have read.

The first Westerner known to have shot and killed a giant panda was Kermit Roosevelt, a son of President Theodore Roosevelt, during a hunting expedition in 1929.

Kermit and his brother Theodore Roosevelt Jr. organised the trip specifically with the goal of collecting a panda specimen for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

Their expedition was funded under the auspices of the William V. Kelly Roosevelt Asiatic Expedition, and the panda specimen they obtained was eventually mounted and put on display at the Field Museum, where it could be seen by the public.

There's a biography about his son that I'm thinking about reading soon.

Uh, Kermit, I think is his name.

Is that his name?

Yeah.

As you move up, your, you must broaden your perspective.

I recall that Sir William Slim, chief of the British Imperial General Staff, was the Kermit Roosevelt lecturer when I was at the Command and General Staff College in 1947.

He talked about the art of high command.

He had commanded the 14th Army in Burma, and he reduced his hour lecture to three points dealing with the art of high command.

For some, it is the sound of the guns.

For others, it is in support of those who go to the sound of the guns.

When I was privileged to deliver the Kermit Roosevelt Lecture Series in England, the title of it wa- the title of my talk was Your Mission is to Fight and Don't Forget It.

I repeat it to you without elaboration.