mossadegh cahuenga this. he heard what was going on and he did the only thing you could have done to protect himself. he closed the british embassy and spent the british diplomats home, among them of course for all the secret agents who are planning the coup. now the british had nothing. they could not invade they had no diplomatic tools even the world court had run uppercase and they had no agents on the ground to stage a coup. they even lost their oil company. the only thing left of them was to appeal to the americans and prime minister churchill did in 77 years old and starting to fade but still a real product of the imperial tradition long-time lover of clandestine operations appeal directly to president truman. truman turned them down. truman resisted all of churchill's pressures. he essentially told him the cia has never overthrown the government. we don't want to get into this business. we don't understand that and we are not going going to quietly intervened and political development without understan