Facts: - death place: cockeysville , maryland - known for: directing to power in iran operation ajax to restore shah mohammad reza pahlavi - caption: kermit of '' tr '' roosevelt , member of the oss '' , cia kim '' roosevelt , jr. , grandson - death cause: undisclosed natural causes - death date: 08 june 2000 - parents: belle roosevelt , sr. . wyatt roosevelt -lrb- nee willard -rrb- , kermit - spouse: mary lowe gaddis - children: kermit mason roosevelt iii mark roosevelt jonathan roosevelt anne roosevelt - birth date: 16 february 1916 - name: kermit roosevelt , jr. . - occupation: career intelligence officer , author - image: kermit roosevelt jr.jpg - birth place: buenos aires , argentina - alma mater: harvard university Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of kermit roosevelt , jr. .
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'' for other persons with the same name , see kermit roosevelt -lrb- disambiguation -rrb- . ''kermit '' kim '' roosevelt , jr. -lrb- february 16 , 1916 -- june 8 , 2000 -rrb- , a grandson of u.s. president theodore roosevelt , was a harvard-educated career intelligence officer who served in the office of strategic services , forerunner to the central intelligence agency -lrb- cia -rrb- , during and following the second world war , went on to found arabist organizations such as the american friends of the middle east , and then to play a critical role in the cia 's operation to return mohammad reza pahlavi , the former shah of iran , to power in august 1953 .specifically , roosevelt , jr. was a political action officer of the cia 's directorate of plans , and with the stated motivation of preventing assumption of power by tudeh , the iranian communist party backed by the soviet union , he coordinated cia 's operation ajax , orchestrating a multifaceted coup d'etat against iran 's democratically elected prime minister , mohammed mosaddeq , and returning the deposed shah , mohammad reza pahlavi , to iran 's sun throne .