The CIA acknowledges its participation in the 1953 coup in Iran

For the first time the CIA has openly acknowledged his involvement in the coup that took place in Iran in 1953, as shown by the National Security Archive at George Washington University. The documents, 35 in all , came to that file after being declassified in 2011. The 1953 coup overthrew the then Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq, who had earned the enmity of the United States and United Kingdom to defend the nationalization of Iran's oil industry. The "military coup that brought down Mossadegh and his cabinet of the National Front was carried out under the direction of the CIA as an act of American foreign policy, "say the documents referenced by the National Security Archive. In this sense, the CIA orchestrated and participated, with the help of British intelligence in TPAJAX operation (code name) and returned the absolute power to last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. According to the deputy director of that file, Malcolm Byrne, there is no need to hide this evidence: "I have no reason to keep the secret of an episode so critical of our recent past. The essential facts are well known to any college in Iran. delete the details only distorts history and myth-fed." About these details are still unknown "who directed the plan, who conducted it, who supported him from Iran and who managed to be a success." Both U.S. President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clintonand confirmed in the last mission of the American and British secret services on August 19, 1953 to return the Shah to power. However, it is the first time that seep CIA documents to confirm this from first hand.