EPISODE · Jun 2, 2024 · 52 MIN
Cold War #263 - A New Hope
from A COLD WAR · host Cameron Reilly & Ray Harris
The election of Eisenhower as U.S. President in Nov 1952 gave the British a new hope that the country might now support their plans to overthrow the Iranian government. Even before Ike took office, they sent Monty Woodhouse, the former chief of MI6 in Tehran, to Washington to start working with the Dulles brothers, soon to be the guys running the U.S.'s overt and covert foreign policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The election of Eisenhower as U.S. President in Nov 1952 gave the British a new hope that the country might now support their plans to overthrow the Iranian government. Even before Ike took office, they sent Monty Woodhouse, the former chief of MI6 in Tehran, to Washington to start working with the Dulles brothers, soon to be the guys running the U.S.'s overt and covert foreign policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Cold War #263 - A New Hope
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