(Q117357022)

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Catherine the Cat Lady

a woman employed by the CIA in Tehran in 1953

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The Cat Lady (English)
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In Tehran, Copeland talked to Roger Goiran and his deputy, John Waller, but found that the most helpful source for coup planning was Catherine, the 'Cat Lady', who was employed in a small unit in the embassy known as 'the CIA within the CIA'. She had numerous contacts among the American contractors of Iranian ancestry who had come to work in Tehran, and among the 'Zirkaneh Giants', the weight-lifters who could be hired to direct and control the mobs. (English)
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