Canada's former ambassador to Iran was CIA spy

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January 23, 2010, 10:38:45 PM
Canada's former ambassador to Iran was CIA spy

By THE CANADIAN PRESS
Sat. Jan 23 - 8:42 AM
TORONTO — A report says the Canadian diplomat praised for sheltering Americans during the Iranian Revolution was a CIA spy.

The Globe and Mail quotes former ambassador Ken Taylor as telling the newspaper that he was made ``de facto CIA station chief'' in a secret deal between president Jimmy Carter and prime minister Joe Clark.

The report says the move followed the seizure of the U.S. Embassy by Iranian students Nov. 4, 1979, when 63 Americans, including the four-member Central Intelligence Agency contingent, were taken hostage.

The Globe says Taylor, who was ambassador to Iran from 1977 to 1980, actively spied for the Americans and helped them plan an armed incursion into the country.

It says details of Taylor's role are revealed in a new book being released today, ``Our Man in Tehran,'' by Trent University historian Robert Wright.

The newspaper says the phrase ``de facto CIA station chief'' appears in Wright's book, the manuscript of which Taylor saw and approved in advance of publication. (The Globe and Mail)

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After the Revolution of 1905, the Czar had prudently prepared for further outbreaks by transferring some $400 million in cash to the New York banks, Chase, National City, Guaranty Trust, J.P.Morgan Co., and Hanover Trust. In 1914, these same banks bought the controlling number of shares in the newly organized Federal Reserve Bank of New York, paying for the stock with the Czar\'s sequestered funds. In November 1917,  Red Guards drove a truck to the Imperial Bank and removed the Romanoff gold and jewels. The gold was later shipped directly to Kuhn, Loeb Co. in New York.-- Curse of Canaan
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