Miles Copeland
Retired CIA officer who helped restore the Shah in 1953 and later gathered anti-Carter CIA veterans during the Iranian hostage crisis.
Miles Copeland was a well-known retired CIA officer. In December 1979, he gathered a group of CIA-connected officers and associates who were unhappy with the Carter administration and the CIA leadership.1
Copeland had previously helped Kermit Roosevelt and the Iranian military restore the Shah of Iran to power in 1953 after he had been overthrown by Mohammed Mossadegh. He was a friend of the late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and was known for his anti-Israel stance. Israeli intelligence believed him responsible for U.S. pressure on Israel, Britain, and France to withdraw from the Suez Canal area in 1956, and for pushing Israelis to withdraw from the Sinai.1
Copeland's group, along with the Israeli government, sought to prevent the Iranians from being defeated in Khuzistan if Iraq attacked, and to avoid a repeat of President Carter's blunders. A meeting between Copeland and Israeli intelligence officers, including David Kimche, was held in Washington, D.C..1
Sources
- Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. TrineDay, 1992. ↩
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