The State Department released a long-awaited “retrospective” volume of declassified U.S. government documents on the 1953 coup in Iran, including records describing planning and implementation of the covert operation. The publication is the culmination of decades of internal debates and public controversy after a previous official collection omitted all references to the role of American and British intelligence in the ouster of Iran’s then-prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddeq.
For decades, both US and UK government denied their involvement.
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocu...951-54Iran
Well it would be embarassing to admit they shot themselves in the ass... Because of them a normal and modern, even if authoritarian country turned into the rogue state we know today.
Did you read the whole document? Or is there something like a summary?
(Jun 19, 2017, 02:02 PM)Rizion Wrote: [ -> ]Did you read the whole document? Or is there something like a summary?
I believe highlights of the documents will be released soon, especially seeing as historians have been requesting them for decades.
Alright, not to shit on your parade, but both countries admitted to this back in 2013.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/
If you read through the documents, you find mentions of both MI6 and the CIA admitting involvement.
Edit: Reading through this, it seems this is much more detailed than what was previously released. But mostly, it is not new info.
The only reason I know shit about this is because I wrote my AP US History term paper on it.
Edit 2:
, the only reason that Iran was a modern, westernized civilization was mostly due to the western support for Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, who embraced western culture. It was because HE was so authoritative that there was a revolution, and subsequently, the current state of Iran. Before Pahlevi, Iran was much like all of the other post-colonial Middle Eastern countries, in pretty shit shape.