{"id":37550,"date":"2013-08-29T09:44:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T16:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=37550"},"modified":"2013-08-29T09:44:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T16:44:02","slug":"journalist-acquires-cia-documents-proving-us-involvement-in-1953-iran-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/08\/29\/journalist-acquires-cia-documents-proving-us-involvement-in-1953-iran-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist Acquires CIA Documents Proving US Involvement in 1953 Iran Coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130829Uprising\/2013_08_29_iran_coup.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130829Uprising\/2013_08_29_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/iran_coup.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Sixty years ago last week, Iran\u2019s new experiment with democracy was cut horribly short when Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh was overthrown in a coup. <\/p>\n<p>The string of events that led up to today\u2019s government can be traced to that coup, which journalists and historians maintain was directed by the US CIA. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, CIA operative Kermit Roosevelt who oversaw the CIA\u2019s role in the coup, revealed his role in interviews and a book after he resigned. But the CIA itself had never directly admitted its involvement. <\/p>\n<p>Until now. <\/p>\n<p>On August 19th 2013, the non-profit organization, the National Security Archive, reported that it had finally had its Freedom of Information Act Request to the CIA fulfilled, and had received documents showing that the coup was \u201ccarried out under CIA direction as an act of US Foreign Policy.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Malcolm Byrne, Deputy Director and Director of Research of the National Security Archive at George Washington University, and author of Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.gwu.edu\/~nsarchiv\/NSAEBB\/NSAEBB435\/\">Click here<\/a> to read the original documents declassified by the CIA. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty years ago last week, Iran\u2019s new experiment with democracy was cut horribly short when Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh was overthrown in a coup. The string of events that led up to today\u2019s government can be traced to that coup, which journalists and historians maintain was directed by the US CIA. In fact, CIA operative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37558,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37550\/revisions\/37558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}