It was typical June weather in Washington: hot & humid. Kermit Roosevelt, grandson of Theodore Roosevelt & a veteran of the OSS, was hurrying to a meeting with John Foster Dulles at the State Department. That meeting in 1953 was to lead to one of the greatest triumphs in America's covert operations in foreign affairs. For at that time it was believed that Iran, under the leadership of Prime Minister Mossadegh, was slipping under Russian domination. At the meeting in Dulles' office, Kermit Roosevelt was given the go-ahead to mastermind the overthrow of Mossadegh & return the Shah to the Peacock Throne