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 U.S.
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 it backed in Iran that overthrew its prime minister and cemented the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as undemocratic.
In it, CIA spokesman and podcast host Walter Trosin cites the claims of agency historians that the majority of the CIA’s clandestine activities in its history “bolstered” popularly elected governments. “We should acknowledge, though, that this is, therefore, a really significant exception to that rule,” Trosin says of the 1953 coup. CIA historian Brent Geary, appearing on the podcast, agrees. “This is one of the exceptions to that,” Geary says.
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