CIA documents acknowledge its role in Iran's 1953 coup [View all]

[Surya Gayatri]

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Source: BBC News

"The CIA has released documents which for the first time formally acknowledge its key role in the 1953 coup which ousted Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadeq.
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But until now the intelligence agencies have issued "blanket denials" of their role, says the editor of the trove of documents, Malcolm Byrne.
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The documents show how the CIA prepared for the coup by placing anti-Mossadeq stories in both the Iranian and US media.
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The US and UK intelligence agencies bolstered pro-Shah forces and helped organise anti-Mossadeq protests."

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23762970

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File this in the "No shit, Sherlock" folder.

Still, very interesting to have the whole sorry business laid out in full view.

Sixty years on and the world is still paying the price for that ill-judged and untimely intervention.

Here's a direct link to the publishing entity and the docs in question.

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/