US quietly publishes once-expunged papers on 1953 Iran coup

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US quietly publishes once-expunged papers on 1953 Iran coup

www.wanttoknow.info/newsstories-20-20



July 10, 2017


Once expunged from official State Department history, the U.S.-backed 1953 coup in Iran and what led up to it can be glimpsed in documents that the department has quietly published. The operation ultimately pushed the country toward its Islamic Revolution and hostility with the West.

The CIA's role in the coup, which toppled Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh and cemented the control of the shah, was well known when the State Department offered its first compendium on the era in 1989. But any trace of American involvement in the putsch had been wiped from the report, causing historians to call it a fraud.

The 1,007-page report [released this month] shows U.S. officials discussing a coup up to a year before it took place. The CIA at one point "stockpiled enough arms and demolition material to support a 10,000-man guerrilla organization for six months" and paid out $5.3 million for bribes and other costs, which would be equivalent to $48 million today.

 One CIA document [states] that "several leading members of these (Iranian) security services are paid agents of this organization." The CIA also described hoping to use "powerfully influential clergy" in Shiite Iran to back the coup. To this day, Iran's clerical leaders portray the U.S. as a hostile foreign power bent on subverting and overthrowing its government.

 As President Dwight Eisenhower wrote ... in 1953, if knowledge of the coup became public, "We would not only be embarrassed in that region, but our chances to do anything of like nature in the future would almost totally disappear."

Note: The complete collection of State Department documents on this CIA-backed coup is available here. More recently, US policy reportedly fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing intelligence agency corruption news articles from reliable major media sources.

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Apr 30, 2018 19:37:56 GMT -5 DrSchadenfreude said:

     It looks like Eisenhower's fear of publicity was all for naught.

     The CIA's role in assassinating Iranian President Mossadeq in 1953, and setting up the Shah's brutal SAVAK police state, is now public knowledge-- and it has not prevented us from carrying out subsequent CIA black ops in the region, like Timber Sycamore, etc.

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    Re-posting this de-classified history of the CIA's assassination of democratically-elected Iranian President Mossadeq in 1953.

     The CIA also trained the SAVAK to run the Shah's totalitarian police torture state for the next 45 years.

     Mutt would have fit right in.

    Mutt and the Trump trolls need to learn some basic CIA/Iran history.

[vindex]

Jul 23, 2017 12:28:05 GMT -5 DrSchadenfreude said:

US quietly publishes once-expunged papers on 1953 Iran coup

www.wanttoknow.info/newsstories-20-20



July 10, 2017


Once expunged from official State Department history, the U.S.-backed 1953 coup in Iran and what led up to it can be glimpsed in documents that the department has quietly published. The operation ultimately pushed the country toward its Islamic Revolution and hostility with the West.

The CIA's role in the coup, which toppled Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh and cemented the control of the shah, was well known when the State Department offered its first compendium on the era in 1989. But any trace of American involvement in the putsch had been wiped from the report, causing historians to call it a fraud.

The 1,007-page report [released this month] shows U.S. officials discussing a coup up to a year before it took place. The CIA at one point "stockpiled enough arms and demolition material to support a 10,000-man guerrilla organization for six months" and paid out $5.3 million for bribes and other costs, which would be equivalent to $48 million today.

 One CIA document [states] that "several leading members of these (Iranian) security services are paid agents of this organization." The CIA also described hoping to use "powerfully influential clergy" in Shiite Iran to back the coup. To this day, Iran's clerical leaders portray the U.S. as a hostile foreign power bent on subverting and overthrowing its government.

 As President Dwight Eisenhower wrote ... in 1953, if knowledge of the coup became public, "We would not only be embarrassed in that region, but our chances to do anything of like nature in the future would almost totally disappear."

Note: The complete collection of State Department documents on this CIA-backed coup is available here. More recently, US policy reportedly fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing intelligence agency corruption news articles from reliable major media sources.

Hopefully this is no longer than it needs to be, but if it's a long post then so be it.

The two greatest triumphs of the Cold War era CIA are both looking a lot worse for the interest of our Nation 60-odd years later. Of course, no one can truly expect any intelligence-gathers, i.e. spies,  to predict what will happen in the area that they're spying on20 or 30 years hence.  BUT, they are obliged to make their best assessments as to future developments when they are urging interference in another country's politics.

In Iran 1953 , our CIA backed a military-supported coup overturning that nation's legally elected government. This was not an anti-American government, but it did demand a fairer share of the royalties from Iranian oil fields which the Anglo-Iranian  Petroleum Company insisted on denying them. Unfortunately for the United States, Winston Churchill  and the Tories in Great Britain took power in the 1953 elections and then proceeded to set up a hue & cry about "communists" threatening to take over British oil interests in Iran, which was like yelling that Stalin was banging on the doors of Houston or Saudi Arabia. This provided the basis for the CIA's famous coup d'état in which the Iranian military seized control and brought the Shah back from Romer to assume control AND begat 3+ decades of the Shah's rule in Iran.

I myself have never had any patience with the idea that the Shah was an American puppet from 1953 to 1979, or I even should say,  to 1973. Anyone of my age who remembers the oil embargo of 1973 will also remember that the Shah did not support an oil embargo to the USA, but he DID and even agitated for EVERY increase in the then price of oil-per-barrel. In right Iran might - MIGHT - have had a somewhat "neutralist" and secular government in place of the Shah's absolute monarchy if Eisenhower and Dulles had told Churchill to move off to the corner somewhere and take a leak. However, Iranians who are always screaming about American subversion would do well to research their own country's history and their OWN politicians' participation in it.

The other bad news haunting this country from the Eisenhower era is the overthrow of the democratically elected government in Guatemala and its President Jacobo Arbenz in 1954. Because of whinings and complaints from United Fruit Company, this Nation supported and orchestrated a coup d'état of its legally elected President Jacobo Arbenz who had the audacity to suggest to United Fruit that they should allow expropriation - WITH compensation - of last acreages for peasants' use, which United Fruit was not even cultivating at that time.

Result: Guatemala gets almost a half century of American bullshit and thievery, plus now its is on the backwind of evil Trumpist lies about climate changes.


Moral of the story: Get the hell out of Trump Rally Country before it's too late! 

HW
Still trying to forgive all the idiots that voted for him.

[daleko]

Jun 20, 2019 13:57:24 GMT -5 DrSchadenfreude said:

    Re-posting this de-classified history of the CIA's assassination of democratically-elected Iranian President Mossadeq in 1953.

     The CIA also trained the SAVAK to run the Shah's totalitarian police torture state for the next 45 years.

     Mutt would have fit right in.

    Mutt and the Trump trolls need to learn some basic CIA/Iran history.

And again Willie meets the performance of Christ. Twice in one day.

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Jul 12, 2019 18:00:17 GMT -5 daleko said:

Jun 20, 2019 13:57:24 GMT -5 DrSchadenfreude said:

    Re-posting this de-classified history of the CIA's assassination of democratically-elected Iranian President Mossadeq in 1953.

     The CIA also trained the SAVAK to run the Shah's totalitarian police torture state for the next 45 years.

     Mutt would have fit right in.

    Mutt and the Trump trolls need to learn some basic CIA/Iran history.

And again Willie meets the performance of Christ. Twice in one day.

Cheese Burgher,

     Why have I "resurrected" old threads, on occasion?

     Because those who can't remember history are destined to repeat it.

     John Bolton and the Neocons are pushing hard for regime change in Iran, as they did in Iraq 16 years ago.  How'd that work out?

     Do we never learn from our historic blunders?

[daleko]

Jul 13, 2019 0:20:34 GMT -5 DrSchadenfreude said:

Jul 12, 2019 18:00:17 GMT -5 daleko said:

And again Willie meets the performance of Christ. Twice in one day.

Cheese Burgher,

     Why have I "resurrected" old threads, on occasion?

     Because those who can't remember history are destined to repeat it.

     John Bolton and the Neocons are pushing hard for regime change in Iran, as they did in Iraq 16 years ago.  How'd that work out?

     Do we never learn from our historic blunders?

You certainly are in good practice. How many times have you resurrected drschadenfreude?

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Jul 13, 2019 0:25:24 GMT -5 daleko said:

Jul 13, 2019 0:20:34 GMT -5 DrSchadenfreude said:

Cheese Burgher,

     Why have I "resurrected" old threads, on occasion?

     Because those who can't remember history are destined to repeat it.

     John Bolton and the Neocons are pushing hard for regime change in Iran, as they did in Iraq 16 years ago.  How'd that work out?

     Do we never learn from our historic blunders?

You certainly are in good practice. How many times have you resurrected drschadenfreude?

Having trouble focusing on the thread topic again, eh, Cheese Burgher?

Let me help you out.  Three questions for you.

1)  Why are the U.S., U.K., Israel, and Saudi Arabia so persistently hell-bent on making up pretexts to destroy Iran?

2)  In your opinion, are the Iranian people (80 million) entitled to own and sell their own natural resources and govern their society in accordance with their own cultural and religious beliefs-- the same way that the U.S., U.K., Israel, and Saudi Arabia do?

3)  Which society is more autocratic, Fundamentalist, and enthusiastic about sponsoring Islamic violence in the world-- Iran or Saudi Arabia?

[daleko]

Jul 13, 2019 11:48:03 GMT -5 DrSchadenfreude said:

Jul 13, 2019 0:25:24 GMT -5 daleko said:

You certainly are in good practice. How many times have you resurrected drschadenfreude?

Having trouble focusing on the thread topic again, eh, Cheese Burgher?

Let me help you out.  Three questions for you.

1)  Why are the U.S., U.K., Israel, and Saudi Arabia so persistently hell-bent on making up pretexts to destroy Iran?

2)  In your opinion, are the Iranian people (80 million) entitled to own and sell their own natural resources and govern their society in accordance with their own cultural and religious beliefs-- the same way that the U.S., U.K., Israel, and Saudi Arabia do?

3)  Which society is more autocratic, Fundamentalist, and enthusiastic about sponsoring Islamic violence in the world-- Iran or Saudi Arabia?

You were in this case necro posting. Why doesn't matter. Start a new thread to reflect the current sit rep, you find alarming. Pretty simple. Christ you are not. Though you might think so.

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Jul 13, 2019 11:55:10 GMT -5 daleko said:

Jul 13, 2019 11:48:03 GMT -5 DrSchadenfreude said:

Having trouble focusing on the thread topic again, eh, Cheese Burgher?

Let me help you out.  Three questions for you.

1)  Why are the U.S., U.K., Israel, and Saudi Arabia so persistently hell-bent on making up pretexts to destroy Iran?

2)  In your opinion, are the Iranian people (80 million) entitled to own and sell their own natural resources and govern their society in accordance with their own cultural and religious beliefs-- the same way that the U.S., U.K., Israel, and Saudi Arabia do?

3)  Which society is more autocratic, Fundamentalist, and enthusiastic about sponsoring Islamic violence in the world-- Iran or Saudi Arabia?

You were in this case necro posting. Why doesn't matter. Start a new thread to reflect the current sit rep, you find alarming. Pretty simple. Christ you are not. Though you might think so.

Stay on topic, dude.

Answer the three questions.

[daleko]

Jul 13, 2019 13:53:33 GMT -5 DrSchadenfreude said:

Jul 13, 2019 11:55:10 GMT -5 daleko said:

You were in this case necro posting. Why doesn't matter. Start a new thread to reflect the current sit rep, you find alarming. Pretty simple. Christ you are not. Though you might think so.

Stay on topic, dude.

Answer the three questions.

Is Willie Christ? NO
Will Colorado win 7 FB games in '19? NO
Is Willie a closet necro? <shrug> Probably not.

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Jul 13, 2019 17:05:31 GMT -5 daleko said:

Jul 13, 2019 13:53:33 GMT -5 DrSchadenfreude said:

Stay on topic, dude.

Answer the three questions.

Is Willie Christ? NO
Will Colorado win 7 FB games in '19? NO
Is Willie a closet necro? <shrug> Probably not.

     I get it.  You don't want to talk about the longstanding U.S./U.K. struggle to control Iran's oil reserves.

[daleko]

Jul 13, 2019 19:22:36 GMT -5 DrSchadenfreude said:

Jul 13, 2019 17:05:31 GMT -5 daleko said:

Is Willie Christ? NO
Will Colorado win 7 FB games in '19? NO
Is Willie a closet necro? <shrug> Probably not.

     I get it.  You don't want to talk about the longstanding U.S./U.K. struggle to control Iran's oil reserves.