CIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup

[SecularMotion]

Washington, D.C., August 19, 2013 – Marking the sixtieth anniversary of the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, the National Security Archive is today posting recently declassified CIA documents on the United States' role in the controversial operation. American and British involvement in Mosaddeq's ouster has long been public knowledge, but today's posting includes what is believed to be the CIA's first formal acknowledgement that the agency helped to plan and execute the coup.

The explicit reference to the CIA's role appears in a copy of an internal history, The Battle for Iran, dating from the mid-1970s. The agency released a heavily excised version of the account in 1981 in response to an ACLU lawsuit, but it blacked out all references to TPAJAX, the code name for the U.S.-led operation. Those references appear in the latest release. Additional CIA materials posted today include working files from Kermit Roosevelt, the senior CIA officer on the ground in Iran during the coup. They provide new specifics as well as insights into the intelligence agency's actions before and after the operation.

The 1953 coup remains a topic of global interest because so much about it is still under intense debate. Even fundamental questions — who hatched the plot, who ultimately carried it out, who supported it inside Iran, and how did it succeed — are in dispute.[1]

The issue is more than academic. Political partisans on all sides, including the Iranian government, regularly invoke the coup to argue whether Iran or foreign powers are primarily responsible for the country's historical trajectory, whether the United States can be trusted to respect Iran's sovereignty, or whether Washington needs to apologize for its prior interference before better relations can occur.

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

[malthaussen]

1. Imagine that! n/t

[polynomial]

2. making the challenge

Kermit Roosevelt jumps out at me. Here we have the ultra-conservative as a senior member of the CIA. Or the cool guy in charge of the best plans ever by the one percent profiteers in the fifties.

Absolutely has to be the real reason those sectors of “We the People” the one percenters of we the people find it necessary to develop deception rebuttal to recent files dumped by Manning or Snowden. Perhaps some file revealing more than the inside families want. Hope Bush and Cheney are in the mix.

Or this was the Roosevelt / Rockefeller era. Rockefeller building his oil empire, and Roosevelt making the challenge.

What Some Previous Presidents Thought Of Corporate Power;

“A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people’s property, other people’s money, other people’s labor - other people’s lives. For too many of us life was no longer free; liberty no longer real; men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

“To regulate its business use as the public welfare requires.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

“The military-industrial complex; the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Very cool statement by rich conservatives Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower. All resonate to ring out to shout support for the poor and middle class American. Do you think Hannity or Limbaugh would quote these presidents? No, because Limbaugh and Hannity represent the Republican Bush Cheney Al Qaeda profiteering party. Much different than the circa 1950.

[Fuddnik]

3. Who leaked that!?!?!?!?!?

I'll bet it was Greenwald. Or Snowden!

Arrest the traitor!

[radicalliberal]

4. So, it appears that the Ayatollah Khomeini (as cruel and despotic as he was) . . .

. . . was, in fact, a proverbial chicken come home to roost.

Concerning other foreign policy misadventures of the U.S., that would also include Fidel Castro, among others. How tragic for those countries and how much to the shame of our own!

[blkmusclmachine]

5. Yep.