8. Interview with Richard Funkhouser, Multinational Subcommittee Staff Interviews («oracle»); Interview with Walter Levy. On Levy's proposals, see Logan memo, July 31, 1951, with Minute, July 29, 1951, EP 1531/1290, FO 371/91575 («camouflage»); Shepherd to Foreign Office, October 10, 1951, EP 1531/1837, FO 371/91599 (John Kennedy); Cabinet Minutes, July 30, 1951, CM (51), CAB 128/20, PRO. Acheson, Present at the Creation,
p. 655; Louis, British Empire, p. 677, n. 5 («mongrelization» and «dilute»); Walters, Silent Missions, pp. 247–56 («crafty,» «Where else?,» «certain principles» and Kashani); FRUS: Iran, 1951–1954, pp. 145 («dream world»).9. Louis, British Empire,
p. 678 («jolly good»); Fergusson to Stokes, October 3, 1951, with Fergusson to Makins, October 4, 1951, EP 1531/1839, FO 371/91599; Ramsbotham to Logan, August 20, 1951, EP 1531/1391, FO 371/91580, PRO. Interview with Peter Ramsbotham («last act of Figaro»); Peter Ramsbotham to author, July 4, 1990; Painter, Oil and American Century, p. 177. John F. Thynne, «British Policy on Oil Resources 1936–1951 with Particular Reference to the Defense of British Controlled Oil in Mexico, Venezuela and Persia» (Ph.D., London School of Economics, 1987), pp. 211–12, 273 («stock-in-trade»); Waiters, Silent Missions, p. 259 («failure»).10. Cabinet, Persia Committee, «Measures to Discourage or Prevent the Disposal of Persian Oil,» December 13, 1951, PO (0)(51)26, CAB 134/1145 («stolen oil»); Cabinet Minutes, September 27, 1951, CM (51), CAB 128/20 («humiliating»), PRO. Interview with Erie Drake («sabotage» and «pistol»); Kemp, Abadan,
pp. 235 («day of hatred»), 241 («Stand Finn»); Longhurst, Adventure in Oil, pp. 143–44 («records»).11. «Steps Taken to Make Up the Loss of Persian Production,» Appendix D to «Measures to Discourage or Prevent the Disposal of Persian Oil,» December 13, 1951, PO (0)(51), CAB 134/1145; «Persian Oil: Future Policy,» April 15, 1953, CAB 134/1149; «Persian Ability to Produce and Sell Oil,» November 22, 1951, PO (0)(51)17, CAB 134/1145, PRO. «Plan of Action No. 1 Under Voluntary Agreement,» July 1951; Lilley to Longon, April 26, 1951, «Texas Co. 1951» file. Case 9, Oil Companies papers. Shell Transport and Trading, «Survey of Current Activities, 1951,» Shell archives («unnecessary»). С. Stribling Snodgrass and Arthur Kuhl, «U.S. Petroleum's Response to the Iranian Shutdown,» Middle East Journal
5 (Autumn 1951) pp. 501–4; Lenczowski, Iran, p. 212.12. Robert Rhodes James, Anthony Eden
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987), pp. 355 («old brain»), 346 («splutter of musketry»), 60, 347 (Anglo-Iranian stock); Eden, Full Circlepp. 212–25 («shaken»). Eden Minute on Bum to Foreign Office, May 7, 1941, No. 202, FO 371/27149; P. Dixon, «Informal Conversation about Persia,» November 14, 1951, CAB 134/1145; Fergusson to the Minister, «Persian Oil,» January 30, 1952 and February 7, 1952 («tell the U.S.A.»), PO (M)(52), POWE 33/1929; Butler to the Secretary, May 22, 1952, POWE 33/1934, PRO. Bill and Louis, Mossadiq, pp. 244, 246 («cloud cuckoo»).13. Interview with George McGhee («end of the world»); George McGhee to author, July 5, 1990; Peter Ramsbotham to author, July 4, 1990; McGhee, Envoy, pp. 401–3; Acheson, Present at the Creation,
pp. 650 («like Texas»); Walters, Silent Missions, p. 262 («my fanatics»); Abrahamian, Iran, pp. 267–68 («rabble rouser»); Sepehr Zabih, The Mossadegh Era: Roots of the Iranian Revolution (Chicago: Lake View Press, 1982), p. 46; Brands, loy Henderson, chap. 20 («secret contempt»); FRUS: Iran, 1951–1954, pp. 179 (future generations), 186 («helpless»).14. «Record of Meeting,» June 28, 1952, EP 15314/163, CAB 134/1147 («some stage»); Makins to Foreign Office, May 21, 1953, EP 1943/1, FO 371/104659; Churchill to Making, June 5, 1953, EP 1943/3G, FO 371/104659; Makins to Foreign Office, June 4, 1953, No. 473, FO 371/104659, PRO. Churchill to Truman, August 16, August 20 («very edge»). August 22, September 29, 1952 (with Acheson to Truman, October 1, 1952), Truman to Churchill, August 18, 1952 («communist drain»), Henderson and Middleton to Bruce and Byroade, August 27, 1952 («trap»), PSF, Truman papers. Acheson, Present at the Creation,
p. 650; Eden, Full Circle, p. 221 («autograph»); Woodhouse, Something Ventured, pp. 110–27; Kermit Roosevelt, Countercoup: The Struggle for the Control of Iran (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979), pp. 114–20; Pahlavi, Shah's Story, p. 55; FRUS: Iran, 1951–1954, pp. 742 («mobocracy»), 693 («Communist control» and «feasible course»), 737–38 («active»), 878.