Roosevelt, Kermit, 1916-2000
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- His Partition of Palestine, 1948.
- Sentimental safari, 1963t.p. (Kermit Roosevelt) p. xi (grandson of Theodore Roosevelt; his father Kermit Roosevelt was Theodore Roosevelt's third child and second son) xii (christened Kermit Roosevelt Junior, but the Army Induction Center knocked the Junior off name when ... recorded that father was dead ... Since childhood known to family and friends as Kim. Son Kermit inherited the Junior)
- WWW Counterpunch page, viewed July 30, 2002(Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt b. in Buenos Aires; grandson of Thoedore Roosevelt; former CIA agent b. in 1916; died on June 8, 2000 aged 84; mastermind of the CIA coup that put the Shah of Iran back on Peacock Throne in 1953)
- WWW TR Genealogy "Family and Descendants of Theodore Roosevelt" page, viewed July 30, 2002(Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (Feb. 16, 1916-June 8, 2000)
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Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt Jr. (February 16, 1916 – June 8, 2000) was an American intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services during and following World War II. A grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, Roosevelt went on to establish American Friends of the Middle East and then played a lead role in the CIA's efforts to overthrow Mohammad Mosaddegh, the democratically elected Majlis-appointed prime minister of Iran, in August 1953.
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