Covert Operations in Russia and Iran
Plausible deniability
Blair on the secret service
“In 1951, the Iranian parliament picked Mohammad Mossadegh as the country’s new prime minister. But Mossadegh would not last long in office. As the country’s leader, he moved to take control of Iran’s oil industry from the British; a move other world leaders saw as “threatening the flow of oil to the free world,” said Stephen Kinzer writing in Smithsonian in 2008. A coup in 1953 replaced Mossadegh and Iran’s democratic government with a monarchy headed by the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
It’s well known that the 1953 coup was orchestrated by British forces and the fledgeling CIA. But, officially, the CIA has never owned up to its role in the events. Now, says Foreign Policy, the National Security Archive has obtained a newly released copy of a document from the 1970s which details the 1953 coup and the CIA’s involvement. “
see also
Oliver North https://www.history.com/topics/1980s/iran-contra-affair
Henry Kissinger