Thursday, November 8, 2007

CIA and the Iranian Coup

Interesting feature from the NYT summarizing the involvement of the CIA in the 1953 Iranian coup. Quite interesting to note how CIA's efforts in curbing communism, the evil du jour, led to the rise of islamic fundamentalism in Iran - just like it did in Afghanistan (detailed marvelously in pulitzer winning book Ghost Wars by Steve Coll)

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