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"Shah about to fall. Mirroring of the palace intrigue at Niavaran with similar under President Carter with State, CIA, and NSC. Crazy how few analysts the US across all its intelligence agencies actually had working on Iran. Lots of (both American and Iranian) CYA going on both in the moment and retrospectively—US Ambassador William H. Sullivan's is probably the most shameless, though." — 2 hours, 11 min ago
"Shah about to fall. Mirroring of the palace intrigue at Niavaran with similar under President Carter with State, CIA, and NSC. Crazy how few analysts the US across all its intelligence agencies actually had working on Iran. Lots of (both American and Iranian) CYA going on both in the moment and retrospectively—US Ambassador William H. Sullivan's is probably the most shameless, though." — 2 hours, 11 min ago
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"Ch 13 - the bamboozling of Babylon. Also on Jones Beach, 233: "In the summer of 1928, on the desolate sand bar on the edge of the ocean, amid half-completed building skeletons that looked like ancient ruins, was a panorama out of the dynasties of the Pharaohs: hundreds, thousands, of men, spread out over miles of sand, kneeling on the ground digging little holes and planting in them tiny bundles of grass."" — Jan 04, 2026 09:45AM
"Ch 13 - the bamboozling of Babylon. Also on Jones Beach, 233: "In the summer of 1928, on the desolate sand bar on the edge of the ocean, amid half-completed building skeletons that looked like ancient ruins, was a panorama out of the dynasties of the Pharaohs: hundreds, thousands, of men, spread out over miles of sand, kneeling on the ground digging little holes and planting in them tiny bundles of grass."" — Jan 04, 2026 09:45AM
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