Roosevelt, Archibald B. Jr (0885630): Difference between revisions

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He joined Central Intelligence Group (later CIA). Worked as newspaper reporter (local news). Roosevelt was proud of his work with the CIA and proud to keep the oath he took not to reveal facts about the CIA. President Theodore Roosevelt, was a soldier, scholar, polyglot, authority on the Middle East, and career CIA officer. He served as chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's stations in Istanbul, Madrid and London. Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt Jr. was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 18, 1918, the son of Grace Lockwood and Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt. He graduated from the Groton School and then went to Harvard University, where he graduated in the class of 1940. He was selected as a Rhodes Scholar as an undergraduate, but he was not able to accept the post due to the outbreak of World War II in Europe. Roosevelt first worked for a newspaper in Seattle, Washington. During the war, he became an Army intelligence officer. He served as a "Ritchie Boy" secret unit specially trained at Fort Ritchie, Maryland. He accompanied U.S. troops in their landing in North Africa in 1942 and soon began to form views on the French colonial administration and the beginnings of Arab nationalism. Later in the war he was a military attaché in Iraq and Iran. From 1962 to 1966 he held the same job in London. He finished his CIA career in Washington, D.C., where he retired in 1974. Roosevelt was involved in coup plots in Syria and Iraq, but he was unable to replicate his cousin Kim's success in Iran. Once control had been established, Ilyan would inform the civilians he'd selected that they were to form a new government, but in order to avoid leaks none of them would be told until just a week before the coup. Although Secretary of State John Foster Dulles publicly opposed a coup, privately he had consulted with the CIA and recommended the plan to President Eisenhower. The plan was postponed for five days, during which time Israel invaded Egypt. Ilyan told Eveland he could not succeed in overthrowing the Syrian government during a war of Israeli aggression. In mid-1962, the Kennedy administration tasked Roosevelt with making preparations for a military coup against Iraqi Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim, whose expropriation of the concessionary holdings of the British- and American-owned Iraq Petroleum Company and threats to invade Kuwait were considered a threat to U.S. interests in the Persian Gulf. While the CIA had cultivated assets within the Iraqi Ba'ath Party, a former CIA colleague of Roosevelt's has denied any CIA role in the February 1963 Ba'athist coup that saw Qasim assassinated, stating instead that the CIA's efforts against Qasim were still in the planning stages at the time. Roosevelt died on May 31, 1990, of congestive heart failure. He is buried in the Roosevelt family plot at Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, New York.

* 11 June 1943 Served with PWB in Tunis.

* 5 October 1943 Transfer of Roosevelt (and Siblini) to OSS-MO to Cairo approved.

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