Documents shedding light on CIA-orchestrated Iranian coup of ’53 released by State Dept

Published time: 16 Jun, 2017 21:40 The US State Department has released a volume of declassified documents detailing the role the United States played in the 1953 coup against the Iranian government of Mohammad Mosaddegh. Released Thursday, the 1,000-page “Foreign Relations of the United States, Iran, 1951–1954” provides information on the use of covert operations […]