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Chapter 2: The Key Players

cover of Time Magazine when Time proclaimed him as
the man of the year. At the time, England controlled oil
and railroads and kept the majority of the profits,
leaving Iran with a pittance. When Mossadegh tried to
negotiate a better deal, England, with the help of
America’s CIA, sent Kermit Roosevelt, the grandson of
President Theodore Roosevelt, to overthrow Mossadegh
by way of lies, bribes, and deceit.
The coup was successful in restoring the Shah of
Iran to power. The Shah ruled with an iron fist while
acquiescing to Britain’s demands until 1979 when
Grand Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew him in an Islamic
revolution. If we had given Iran a better deal,
Mossadegh would have stayed in power, and there
would have never been an Islamic revolution. Instead,
this neoconservative technique of peacefully
overthrowing world leaders and replacing them with
men of their choosing was so successful that the CIA
repeated this scenario in other countries.

In his 2004 book, The Confessions of an
Economic Hit Man, John Perkins explains how the CIA
used hit men to gain control over other nations. The
CIA would hire private companies, such as Chas. T.
Main, to send trained personnel into countries disguised
as economic experts to convince them to take out loans
to fund construction and engineering projects that
would supposedly lead to economic growth and
prosperity. The scenarios presented by these hit men
were overly ambitious, and many of their projects were
not economically feasible, thus causing loan defaults.

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