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Up for sale the "5th Baron Terrington" Montague Woodhouse Hand Signed 3X5 Card Dated 1961. This item is certified authentic by Todd
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Christopher Montague Woodhouse, 5th 1917 – 13 February 2001), was of to 1966 and again from 1970 to 1974. He was also a visiting Fellow
at Nuffield College, Oxford,
from 1956 to 1964. Terrington was an expert on Greek affairs after he first got involved with the resistance forces in Greece against the Germans
during World War II, and then
having served in the British Embassy. Montague Woodhouse was the son of Horace Woodhouse, 3rd Baron Terrington, and Valerie Phillips,
and was educated at Winchester College, and then at New College, Oxford, where
he took a double first in Classics. After completing his education, he enlisted
in the Royal Artillery in
1939 and served for the duration of World War II, being commissioned as an officer in 1940 and
rising to the rank of colonel by 1943. He was awarded a DSO and
appointed an Officer of the Order of the British
Empire in 1944. He served most of his time in the War in Greece
where his love for this country grew strong, as shown in his writings. In 1941
he was one of the SOE officers
sent to Crete to organize the resistance forces behind enemy
lines. In September 1942 he was parachuted to mainland Greece as the
Second-in-Command of the Harling Force, headed by Eddie Myers, whose task was to blow up the Gorgopotamos bridge. Following the success of this
operation Myers and Woodhouse were ordered by SOE Cairo to stay on in mainland
Greece and form the British Military Mission. Initially their presence had only
been intended for Operation Harling. Woodhouse, being one of only a few British
officers on the mission who could speak Greek, was often sent off alone to make
contact with political elements in Athens. Due to his imposing appearance of
being tall with burning ginger beard this was no mean feat, but he succeeded in
numerous trips into the Athenian suburbs, often still wearing British Army
uniform. After Myers' dismissal in July 1943, at the request of the Foreign
Office, Woodhouse became the head of the British Military Mission. After the
conclusion of World War II, Woodhouse served as Second Secretary at the British
Embassy in Athens, Greece, until 1946, whereupon he returned
to Britain, and served in a variety of industrial and academic appointments. In
1951, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Literature. From 1951 to 1952, he worked at the British Embassy
in Tehran, Iran, and in 1952 and 1953 was involved in
organising British aspects of the US/UK organised 1953 Iranian coup d'état. From
July 1955 to October 1959 was the Director General at the Royal
Institute of International Affairs. In 1941, the Soviets and the
British jointly invaded Iran to
secure the oilfields and supply lines and deny support for the Germans. By the
1950s, Britain was concerned by possible chaos in Iran and an invasion by the
USSR. From 1951 Woodhouse was a MI6 agent
in Tehran, operating under cover of a Foreign Office appointment. In 1952, he
was ordered to arm tribesmen in northern Iran to resist any Soviet attack. He brought weapons into Iran,
flying them from RAF Habbaniya in
Iraq, for a "resistance" movement that did not exist as yet. Later in
1953 a covert mission to remove Mohammed Mossadegh from
power was instigated by Britain's Churchill government and the U.S's
Eisenhower' administration. Mossadegh had become Iran's democratically elected
prime minister and he had nationalised oil possessions of the British-owned
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now British Petroleum) after Britain had refused to
negotiate away its single most valuable foreign asset.Robin Zaehner had developed contacts in Iran and when the
British were expelled, Woodhouse took his contacts to the CIA station chief.
Thus a conspiracy to overthrow Mossadegh was staged in a joint mission between
the CIA and
MI6. The CIA named the operation Operation TPAjax, erroneously referred to
as Operation Ajax, TP
standing for the Soviet-backed communist Tudeh Party of Iran.
British activities were codenamed Operation Boot. Woodhouse
proposed Operation Boot to the Eisenhower administration. It would use
"disenchanted" Iranian elements of the army, the clergy and the
political parties to oust Mossadegh. Together with the CIA he instigated and
orchestrated the "bazaaris" of Tehran to demonstrate against Mossadegh,
demonstrations which led to the deaths of hundreds or possibly thousands of
Iranian people. Woodhouse, through the Shah's
sister, encouraged the ruler not to abandon the throne.