••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 2003, he testified before the 9-11 Commission (aka the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States).<unk> 2003 he testified before the 9-11 Commission (aka the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States). Journalist and academic Stephen Kinzer has called him "the most persistent" of "a small but dedicated group of scholars [who] have devoted considerable effort to uncovering the truth about events surrounding the
1953 coup" in Iran, an event so important (Kinzer believes) it "defined all of subsequent Iranian history and reshaped the world in ways that only now becoming clear".