The CIA’s acknowledgment in a podcast about the agency’s history comes as much of its official history of the coup remains classified 70 years after the putsch
Former Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, left, is sentenced to three years solitary confinement by a military court after finding him guilty on 13 charges of acting against the shah, in Tehran, on Dec. 21, 1953.While revealing new details about one of the most famed CIA operations of all times – the spiriting out of six American diplomats who escaped the 1979 U.S. Embassy seizure in Iran – the intelligence agency for the first time has acknowledged something else as well.
The “CIA’s leadership is committed to being as open with the public as possible,” the agency said in a statement responding to questions from The Associated Press. “The agency’s podcast is part of that effort – and we knew that if we wanted to tell this incredible story, it was important to be transparent about the historical context surrounding these events, and CIA’s role in it.”
The CIA’s podcast, called “The Langley Files” as its headquarters is based in Langley, Virginia, focused two recent episodes on the story of the six American diplomats’ escape. While hiding at the home of the Canadian ambassador to Iran, a two-man CIA team entered Tehran and helped them fly out of the country while pretending to be members of a crew scouting for a made-up science fiction film.
But in the podcast, which aired about a month before Hamas’ unprecedented attack Saturday on Israel, another brief exchange focuses on the 1953 coup in Iran. Seven decades later, the 1953 coup remains as hotly debated as ever by Iran, its theocratic government, historians and others. That’s led to an American political reappraisal of the 1953 CIA action in Iran. Then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright acknowledged the U.S.’ “significant role” in the coup in 2000. President Barack Obama, speaking in Cairo in 2009, described the CIA’s work as leading to the “overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government.”
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