HIST 2340W Lecture 18: 18
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Bandung conference background bandung meeting in 1955, representatives from asian and african countries express solidarity and talk about common problems had diverse cultures, di erent political ideologies x. Cia wrote a memo on what it though was going on in iran. Cia operation tp-ajax document x danger of falling behind iran curtain. Cia sees nationalist economic measures, sees non repression of tudeh communist party (shah used to repress communists) but mossadegh sees himself as simply reclaiming control of own country"s resources that was dominated by foreign powers for too long. Us only sees socialism, iran will eventually fall behind iran curtain and go to soviet sphere x x x x replace mossadegh in coup, have regime more favorable to american values. 70% of oil revenue going to xx one of the reasons there was so much anti american feeling in 79 was because feeling that us had supported the shah.
