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Autograph; 8vo; ix, (1), 294 pages; Contents clean and secure in original brown cloth binding in very nice dustjacket; lower outer corner of front board bumped.
Inscribed and Signed by the author on ffep -- "To Jay and Jonathan, two Roosevelts / who (I hope!) can read between the / lines.
/ Love / Miles" The author was a friend and colleague of Kermit Roosevelt, Jr.
Miles Axe Copeland Jr.
(1916 â" 1991) was an American musician and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer best known for his close personal relationship with Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser and his "controversial books on intelligence," including this The Game of Nations: The Amorality of Power Politics (1969) and The Game Player: Confessions of the CIA's Original Political Operative (1989).
In his memoirs, Copeland recounted his involvement in numerous covert operations, including the March 1949 Syrian coup d'Ã tat and the 1953 Iranian coup d'Ã tat (Operation Ajax).
A conservative influenced by the ideas of James Burnham, Copeland was associated with the American political magazine National Review.
In a 1986 Rolling Stone interview, he stated "Unlike The New York Times, Victor Marchetti and Philip Agee, my complaint has been that the CIA isn't overthrowing enough anti-American governments or assassinating enough anti-American leaders, but I guess I'm getting old.
" Historian Hugh Wilford describes three key players involved in middle east matters at the time of the founding of the CIA in 1947: "The cousins .
Kermit and Archie Roosevelt, both grandsons of Theodore Roosevelt .
[and] the third member of this ⦠triangle ⦠Miles Copeland ⦠from Alabamaâ"a very smart, dynamic young man.
[The Roosevelts] ⦠took him under their wing, and between them they led the American intelligence efforts in the Middle East.
" PROVENANCE: From the collection of Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr.
(1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt.
He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and was the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies.
Assigned to Egypt, Roosevelt impressed his colleagues with Project FF, which encouraged the Free Officers Movement to carry out a coup d'Ã tat in 1952, and Roosevelt developed close CIA links to the new leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser.
In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's operation to undermine the popular General Neguib and encourage the rise to power of Gamul Abdul Nasser.
Even before his decisive victory, Nasser was communicating through Roosevelt to make a settlement with Great Britain.
These back channel negotiations eventually produced the treaty signed in October 1954.
Hugh Wilford: "[Roosevelt.
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