Sixty years after the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, a declassified CIA document acknowledges that the agency was involved in the 1953 coup.
The independent National Security Archive research institute, which published the document Monday, says the declassification is believed to mark the CIA's first formal acknowledgment of its involvement.
The documents, declassified in 2011 and given to George Washington University research group under the Freedom of Information Act, come from the CIA's internal history of Iran from the mid-1970s and paint a detailed picture of how the CIA worked to oust Mossadegh.
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Sounds pretty familier to the coup in Epypt!
The '53 coup overthrew a democratic govt & installed the Shah, one of the most brutal dictators of the region. His rule seeded the popular revolution that saw Iran turn towards Ayotallah governance.
If the democratic process was allowed to continue in Iran I'm sure generally educated & outward looking Iranians would have taken a different route.
Yes @chrissy
News to that effect have been going around – our bankrolling the anti-Morsi protests.
Breaking news: the CIA helped overthrow Mossadegh and install the Shah. No kidding? Next they'll be telling us that the sky is blue and water is wet.
I agree, Say What... The Policies of the U.S. has never been a furtherance of Democracy as it has been to reek havoc and confusion. No doubt the CIA sees the world as it does its own population from a biased point of view.
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Sixty years from now, I won't even be here to see what role the CIA played in anything.
The CIA was involved?? I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked!
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Color me surprised.
Why is this reported as a barely visible blog where we have stories about Kim Kardashian and a bar shooting on front page?