Iran, 1941-1953: Tudeh, Mosaddegh, Oil, and the CIA-MI6 Coup
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Is There Really a CIA Influence?
The head of the queue generals are hideous literally kept in a CIA safe house I mean this is what comes through in the latest tranche of kind of like documents. This kind of revisionist attempt to sort of blame it on the reactionary clergy and it's all their fault and so on and so forth is really just kind of wishful thinking, says Peter Bergen. The British were actually very active and printing kind of fabricated material also saying you know Mossad Dyrk was Jewish or say you know so anti-Semitic kind of tropes trying to tap into those as well as actually printing material where the Tudor were who are actually very careful on this question of explicitly attacking the clergy and Islam
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