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Kermit Roosevelt, Jr.



Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (February 16, 1916 – June 8, 2000), was the grandson of American president Theodore Roosevelt, and the mastermind of CIA Operation Ajax that orchestrated the coup against Mohammed Mossadegh and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, from self-imposed exile to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953.



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