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  • August 8, 2017 at 6:15 pm #72107
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    New declassified documents on the Iran Coup.
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    link:http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB601-British-appealed-to-US-in-1952-for-coup-against-Mosaddeq-in-Iran/

    August 8, 2017 – The British Foreign Office approached the Truman administration on more than one occasion in late 1952 to propose a coup to overthrow Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, according to freshly declassified State Department documents. Posted today for the first time, two previously Top-Secret memoranda from senior officials at State refer to a series of communications and meetings beginning in October 1952 in which British officials tried to win U.S. approval of Mosaddeq’s ouster.

    The British government has steadfastly refused to release any materials that directly refer to its role in the operation that eventually took place in August 1953, and has consistently pressed the United States not to reveal any substantiation from American files. In fact, evidence has existed for years that the British were intimately involved in promoting and then planning the overthrow of Mosaddeq. The most compelling sources include a leaked CIA after-action report written in 1954 and memoir accounts by various coup participants.

    Today’s posting consists of the most explicit, officially declassified records on the subject released to date by any government….see link…

    August 8, 2017 at 6:19 pm #72108
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