Reminiscences of Archie M. Bolster, 1988.

Biographical Note

Diplomat

Scope and Contents

Childhood in Montana, visit to Iran as child 1946-1948; education at University of Virginia; Navy service; entered Foreign Service, 1958; consulate in Tabriz for two years; impressions of Iranian society, the Shah, the role of women, land reform; evaluation of Holmes as United States ambassador; United States influence in Iran, foreign aid; anti-Shah activity, 1962-63, "New Men;" Shah's power base, analysis of Shah in two circulated papers; American presidents' policies in Iran, military sales to Iran; returned to United States, 1966, work at INR; discussion of Shah's position on oil, Iran's political instability; appraisal of America's contact with opposition to the Shah, American ethnocentricity; assessment of revolution, the failure of policy in Washington

Subjects

• Bolster, Archie--Interviews.
• Burr, William, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Diplomats--Interviews.
• Economic assistance, American.
• Interviews.
• Iran--Description and travel.
• Iran--Foreign relations--United States.
• Iran--History--Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 1941-1979.
• Iran--Politics and government--1941-1979.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Foreign relations--Iran.
• United States. Department of State. Diplomatic and consular service.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Oral History of Iran Archives, 1988