states is politically useful to every egyptian faction." it's easy to look at that kind of stuff and dismiss it, oh, it's the wacky conspiracy theories of the arab street, people in that region are addicted to anti-americanism. we get news like we got today to remind us why conspiracy theories are so powerful. the cia declassified a document showing that 60 years ago they did, in fact, help engineer a coup. "a military coup that overthrew then-prime minister mosadeq was carried out under cia direction as an act of u.s. foreign policy." mosadeq, head of a democratically elected government, was nonetheless regarded by the u.s. as a sinister and dangerous character, subject to communist influence. here's a report from the -- i'm not making this up -- camel news caravan, a news program sponsored by camel cigarettes that aired on nbc just weeks before the cia engineered coup that ousted then-prime minister of iran.