14. The shah, according to the CIA profile, never got over his lack of royal lineage and the ignominy of being a puppet monarch. His resentment toward the west gradually hardened in to a bitter determination to "show them." 15. But he was still a weakling in the early 1950s as premier Mohammed Mosadeq grew in power and began leading iran on a leftward course. The Shah ducked out on the showdown and chartered a plane for rome. While he was safely ensconced in the excelsior hotel, the CIA rescued his throne. 16. The news was brought to him, according to an eyewitness account, while he was dining at the excelsior. The Shah turned pale and looked as if he would faint. "in that case," he finally murmured, "the empress and i will go home as quickly as possible." He returned 12 pounds lighter, with prematurely gray hair. 17. Another problem that plagued the Shah for two decades was his failure to produce a son. His first marriage to princess Fawzia, sister of Egypt's king Farouk, was unhappy. Born into luxury, she became bored with the provincial city of tehran and longed for the swinging social soirees of Cairo. 18. When no son was born, according to the CIA profile, Fawzia ridiculed and humiliated the Shah by accusing him of impotence. He divorced her in 1948, after nine years of marriage. 19. Queen Soraya, wife No. 2, tried for seven years to produce an heir for the Shah. The couple finally checked into New York's Presbyterian medical center for examination. They were pronounced healthy. Still no son came. In 1958, they were divorced. 20. the Shah's long search for a son ended after he married Farah Diba, daughter of a wealthy Iranian. she gave him an heir, Crown prince Reza. 21. CIA psychologists believe that all these elements - his cruel father, his years as a pawn of the west, his undistinguished lineage, his fear of impotence - contributed to an enormous inferiority complex. 22. Now this insecure man, showered with oil billions and bolstered by the United States, is determined to show the world, the psychologists suggest. (End Text)