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    "ocrText": "5/15/54: Reel 3, Track 2, Page 8\nurging us to say that we were supporting them in this; our desire not to\ntake a position; more and more people leaking to the press that we were\nsaying one thing in private and another in public; so we finally, at great\ndifficulty with the British, we decided we were going to make a public\nin\nstatement, ão far as we were concerned the government. Any American was\nfree to do whatever he wanted to, but he had to take his own chances in a\nlaw suit. We put that out; the British fisliked that quite a lot. In\nthe meantime, before that happened, the Khavam episode occurred. I don't\nknow whether angbody knows anymore than I do about this, and I am sure that\nsome people somewhere must know a lot more than I know. I strongly suspect\nthat this was a counter-revolutionary effort, carried out with support from\nsome quarters, but it was a very ineffective and sad one. The Shah x\ndismissed Mossadegh and appointed Khavam. Khavam..\nTRUMAN\nMR. NITZE (?)\nHadn't Mossadegh resigned in one of his piques?\nMR. ACHESON:\nI think he had resigned...\nUs\nMR. NITZE:\nSort of a ready-made si .tuation.\nMR. ACHESON:\nYes, I guess he gave them the opportunity. At any rate, they got him out and\nput Khavam in. Khavam undertook a rather vigorous and courageous program of\ntaking strong action against people in the Majlis and other places who were\ninciting riot and insurrection. And the Shah walked out from under him.\nAnd after a few days of rioting, Khavam was a fugitive and Mossadegh was\nleading the mob. And Khavam was-sought refuge somewhere- I think everybody\nknew where he was but decided not to preas it..\nMR. McGHEE:\nThe story was that Khavam asked for these powers to deal with this mob and\nthe Shah called Mossadegh in and said these are the powers that Khavam is\nasking for.\nMR. ACHESON:\nWhat?\nMR. McGHEE:\nHe called Mossadegh in-the political opponent he'd wanted to get rid of all"
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