CIA owns up to meddling in other countries' governments back in 1953
The CIA has something to say about the coup in Iran 60 years ago: "We did it." Excuse us for not gasping with surprise, since it's been common knowledge for decades. But on Monday, the agency took the important step of making it official and released documents to the National Security Archive admitting that the coup "was carried out under CIA direction as an act of U.S. foreign policy." American and British spooks arranged for the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, to be booted out of office, after he restricted Iran's flow of oil to Western countries. [Source]
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