Reminiscences of Charles W. Naas, 1988.

Biographical Note

Diplomat

Scope and Contents

Director of Iranian Affairs, 1974-1978; Deputy Chief of Mission, 1978-1979; U.S.-Iran Joint Economic Commission; Arms sales to Iran: F-16's, AWAC's, weapons for oil barter; non-arms export agreement; oil price negotiations; role of Central Intelligence Agency in Iran; human rights in Iran; revolutionary activities; martial law in Iran; embassy reactions to crisis; revolution and aftermath; reflections on U.S. policy with Iran; impressions of: Mehdi Bazargan, Jimmy Carter, the Ayatollah Khomeini, Henry Kissinger, the Shah Reza Pahlavi, William Sullivan

Subjects

• Burr, William, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Diplomacy.
• Diplomats--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Iran--Economic conditions--1945-1979.
• Iran--Foreign relations--United States.
• Iran--History--Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 1941-1979.
• Military assistance.
• Naas, Charles W.--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Petroleum industry and trade.
• United States--Foreign relations--Iran.
• United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
• United States. Department of State.