Module 7

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1. module 7
2. Notes CAPTION: National Security Council Meeting, June 1951
4. Dialog TRUMAN: So what have we got?
5. Dialog GENERAL OMAR BRADLEY: It's a mine field, Mr. President,
6. Dialog GENERAL OMAR BRADLEY: plain and simple.
7. Dialog GENERAL OMAR BRADLEY: For Iran, for Britain, possibly for the whole free world.
9. Dialog TRUMAN: McGhee?
10. Dialog MCGHEE: Agreed.
11. Dialog MCGHEE: The Iranians want the heads of all Brits.
12. Dialog MCGHEE: The Iranians want the heads of all Brits.
13. Dialog MCGHEE (OS): And anyone perceived as a friend of the Brits.
14. Dialog MCGHEE (OS): Including us.
15. Dialog MCGHEE: Grady in Tehran calls the situation, and I quote
16. Dialog MCGHEE: "most explosive."
18. Dialog TRUMAN: And Britain?
19. Dialog ACHESON: They're seriously poised to invade.
20. Dialog ACHESON: That oil company is their country's single biggest income source.
21. Dialog ACHESON: Lose it and their whole economy starts teetering.
22. Dialog ACHESON: They'll stop at nothing to get it back.
31. Dialog TRUMAN: We've got to jump in now
32. Dialog TRUMAN: or it's all going to explode.
33. Dialog MCGHEE: Beg pardon, Mr. President,
34. Dialog MCGHEE: jump in and do what?
35. Dialog MCGHEE: If we tell Britain to back off, we'll just get into a fight with them.
36. Dialog GENERAL BRADLEY: Which, if it spirals out of control,
37. Dialog GENERAL BRADLEY: could split the whole Western Alliance.
38. Dialog TRUMAN: Leaving the Soviets unopposed in Europe.
39. Dialog GENERAL BRADLEY (OS): Exactly, sir.
40. Dialog TRUMAN: Hoo boy.
41. Dialog TRUMAN: And if we were to just let Britain invade? Then what?
42. Dialog BRADLEY: Among other things, the Soviets would be highly motivated to step in on Iran's side.
43. Dialog ACHESON: The Soviets vs. the West. God knows how many countries would get sucked into that fight.
44. Dialog GENERAL OMAR BRADLEY: World War Thr--
45. Dialog ACHESON: Tst! Omar, let's not--
46. Dialog TRUMAN (OS): The point is
47. Dialog TRUMAN: we're screwed no matter which we do.
50. Dialog ACHESON: I see one slim option, sir
51. Dialog ACHESON: -- very slim.
54. Dialog ACHESON (CONT'D) First,: we press Britain to stand down just for now.
55. Dialog ACHESON: Draft a letter to Atlee personally.
56. Dialog ACHESON: Hope to God we can stall him.
57. Dialog TRUMAN: And?
58. Dialog ACHESON: Then we work quickly:
59. Dialog ACHESON: pry open even a small window for dialogue.
60. Dialog ACHESON: We then step up as mediators and hammer out a deal for everyone.
62. Dialog MCGHEE (OS): A window for dialogue?
63. Dialog MCGHEE: Meaning get Mossadegh to agree to
64. Dialog MCGHEE: talk to the Fraser gang?
65. Dialog ACHESON: Yes.
66. Dialog GENERAL BRADLEY: Uh!
67. Dialog GENERAL BRADLEY: Are you dreaming, Dean?
68. Dialog GENERAL BRADLEY: Even if we could get a diplomat safely into Tehran right now --
69. Dialog GENERAL BRADLEY: which is doubtful --
70. Dialog GENERAL BRADLEY: who in the world's good enough to cajole Mossadegh into that?
72. Dialog ACHESON: Harriman.
73. Dialog TRUMAN: Harriman.
75. Dialog NARRATOR: W. Averill Harriman.
76. Dialog NARRATOR: Yale Skull and Bones,
77. Dialog NARRATOR: racer of Thoroughbreds,
78. Dialog NARRATOR: director of the Marshall Plan in Europe --
81. Dialog NARRATOR: Called "infallible" in diplomatic circles,
82. Dialog NARRATOR: Harriman could talk the talons off a hawk
83. Dialog NARRATOR: without disturbing a feather.