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IrishBubbaLiberal

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6. book. All The Shah's Men
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 03:19 PM
Mar 29

Good book about the CIA overthrowing the first democratically elected
leader in Iran…

The CIA installed the Shah..

Our “Thug”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Shah's_Men

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That WIKI info is really biased, slanted.
Ignores a lot of the dirty CIA.

That Wiki summary Ignores many of the real sequence of events.

First THEY attempted to get President Truman to act.
But were unsuccessful.

So when Eisenhower became president,
THEY came up with a Bullshit reasons of COMMUNISM
and SOVIET UNION crap to get Eisenhower to agree to coup.

Bottom line.
Iran had OIL, AND thus British and US interest wanted it.
So CIA installed the Shah


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