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- Title
SILENCED HISTORIES AND SANITIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHIES: THE 1953 CIA COUP IN IRAN.
- Authors
BALAGHI, SHIVA
- Abstract
The article discusses the role of autobiographies in the documented history of the 1953 coup in Iran. It is suggested that the U.S. and Great Britain have refused to release official documents concerning the coup in order to conceal the roles of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the regime change through a project called Operation AJAX, leaving the story to be told in unverifiable autobiographies penned by spies such as Kermit Roosevelt, C. M. Woodhouse, and Donald Wilber.
- Subjects
COUP d'etat, Iran, 1953; GREAT Britain-Iran relations; IRAN-United States relations; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; GREAT Britain. MI6; UNITED States. Central Intelligence Agency; ROOSEVELT, Kermit; WILBER, Donald; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, 2013, Vol 36, Issue 1, p71
- ISSN
0162-4962
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/bio.2013.0009