:for other persons with the same name, see kermit roosevelt (disambiguation).  kermit roosevelt, jr. (february 16, 1916 â june 8, 2000), was a political action officer of the central intelligence agency's (cia) directorate of plans who coordinated the operation ajax, which aimed to orchestrate a coup d'Ã©tat against iran's prime minister, mohammed mosaddeq, and return mohammad reza pahlavi, the shah of iran, to iran's sun throne in august 1953. he was also the grandson of us president theodore roosevelt. ==biography== thumb|president theodore roosevelt with his grandsons richard derby (right) and kermit roosevelt, jr (on his lap). kermit roosevelt, jr. was born in buenos aires in 1916, the eldest son of kermit roosevelt and belle wyatt willard. kermit, sr. was assistant manager for the buenos aires branch of the national city bank. he had two brothers, joseph willard roosevelt and dirck roosevelt, and a sister, belle wyatt roosevelt. kermit roosevelt, jr. graduated from groton school and harvard university. when kermit, jr. was 27, his father, a man who tended to drink heavily, committed suicide in alaska where he had been stationed as an intelligence officer with the u.s. army. kermit roosevelt, jr. married mary lowe "polly" gaddis in 1937. they had three sons and a daughter. his eldest son, kermit roosevelt iii (born april 7, 1938), graduated from groton school in the class of 1956 and is a washington d.c. attorney. another son, mark roosevelt (born 1955) is president of antioch college. his other son is jonathan roosevelt and his daughter is anne mason of bethesda."kermit roosevelt, 84, tr's grandson." mark ribbing and jacques kelly. baltimore sun. local ,4b. june 10, 2000. roosevelt's last days were spent at a retirement community in cockeysville, maryland.http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/11/us/kermit-roosevelt-leader-of-cia-coup-in-iran-dies-at-84.html ==middle east political activity== in the late 1940s he was on the advisory board of the institute of arab american affairs inc. the institute published an article by him in foreign affairs in pamphlet form that made the argument that "us support of zionism will be detrimental to long term us interests in the middle east."partition of palestine: a lesson in pressure politics in a further effort to prevent the partition of
1916_births 2000_deaths American_anti-communists American_people_of_Dutch_descent American_people_of_French_descent American_people_of_Scottish_descent American_people_of_Welsh_descent Anglo-Persian_Oil_Company Bulloch_family Harvard_University_alumni Maryland_Republicans People_from_Buenos_Aires People_of_the_Central_Intelligence_Agency Roosevelt_family