The CIA now officially describes the 1953 coup it backed in Iran that overthrew its prime minister and cemented the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as undemocratic.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates While revealing new details about one of the most famed CIA operations of all times the spiriting out of six American diplomats who escaped the 1979 US Embassy seizure in Iran the intelligence agency for the first time has acknowledged something else as well. The CIA now officially describes the 1953 coup
The admission came in a recent episode of the CIA s podcast, The Langley Files, released about a month before the unprecedented Hamas attack on Israel last weekend.
The CIA now officially describes the 1953 coup it backed in Iran that overthrew its prime minister and cemented the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as undemocratic.
The CIA now officially describes the 1953 coup it backed in Iran that overthrew its prime minister and cemented the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as undemocratic.