One of the Roosevelt spawn was a spook for the CIA iirc, jetting around Iran and getting in all sorts of mischief
I just hope your spawn have had or will have an appropriate opportunity to prove their worth to our country.
Yes, that’s Kermit “Kim” Roosevelt Jr. (1916–2000), grandson of Theodore Roosevelt.
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He was a CIA officer (previously OSS during WWII) who served as the main on-the-ground architect and field commander of Operation Ajax (aka TPAJAX), the 1953 coup that overthrew Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and restored power to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
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Key details:Role in Iran: He slipped into Iran under cover, coordinated with local networks, bribed officials and media, spread propaganda, and rallied pro-Shah forces. The first coup attempt on August 15 failed, but he ignored orders to flee, regrouped, and succeeded with a second push on August 19. Tactics included false flags, rumors, and exploiting divisions among nationalists, communists, and clerics.
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Background: Harvard-educated, he had extensive pre-CIA experience traveling the Middle East. He wasn’t just a desk guy—he was actively “jetting around” the region building contacts.
harvardmagazine.com
Aftermath: Eisenhower secretly awarded him the National Security Medal. He later wrote Countercoup (1979) about the operation. He left the CIA around 1958 and did consulting work, including for oil interests and even the Iranian government he helped install.
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This was one of the CIA’s earliest major covert regime-change ops during the Cold War, driven by oil nationalization fears and anti-communist strategy. It remains highly controversial and is often cited as a root cause of long-term U.S.-Iran tensions.
openthemagazine.com
Other Roosevelts had government/military roles, but Kim was the standout “spook” with that specific Iran mischief.
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