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Declassified CIA memo shows how long it took for the US Intelligence Community to take the Iranian Revolution seriously
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JPat Brown
A declassified CIA memo on the eve of the 1979 Iranian Revolution shows the Carter administration scrambling for a basic grasp of the details mere months before the Shah was overthrown.