Reminiscences of Ellis W. Williamson, 1988.

Biographical Note

Military advisor

Scope and Contents

Personal and family background; education; pre-Iran military experiences; duties and authority while in Iran; military assistance and development; state of Iranian infrastructure during 1960s and 1970s; the White Revolution; Iranian military capability and buildup; relationship with Shah; relationship with United States ambassadors to iran; impressions of U.S. State Department; impressions of United States Department of Defense; working relationship with Iranian military; supply of weapons to Iran and United States advisory presence; training of Iranian military; Iranian regional relations; visit of Nixon and Kissinger to Iran in May 1972 activities in Iran of United States private defense industries; growth of Iranian-American relations; popular support for Shah; Iranian internal security; working relationship between United States military and diplomatic presence in Iran

Subjects

• Burr, William, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Iran--Foreign relations--United States.
• Iran--History--Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 1941-1979.
• Military assistance, American.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Soldiers--United States--Interviews.
• United States--Foreign relations--Iran.
• United States. Department of Defense.
• United States. Department of State.
• Williamson, Ellis W. (Ellis Warner), 1918-2007--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Oral History of Iran Archives, 1989