Reminiscences of Gratian M. Yatsevitch, 1989.

Biographical Note

Government executive

Scope and Contents

Ukrainian background, education in U.S. and England; geology degree from Harvard; World War II service; joined Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) in 1950; discussion of job in Iran, interaction with Shah during the fifties and sixties; SAVAK history; evaluation of U.S. foreign relations with Iran; impressions of Iran's political situation in the sixties; return to Washington in 1963, continuing work for C.I.A. 1963-69 involving relations with Iran; retirement from government in 1969, continual visits to Iran from 1969-1977; evaluation of Shah's success and failure as a leader; discussion of Americans involved with Iran before Shah's exile

Subjects

• Burr, William, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Iran--Foreign relations--United States.
• Iran--History--Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 1941-1979.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Foreign relations--Iran.
• United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
• Yatsevitch, Gratian M.--(Gratian Michael)--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Oral History of Iran Archives, 1989