Year 1953: Undoubtedly, there would have been no coup in Augu
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- All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror whole source · open book
Undoubtedly, there would have been no coup in August 1953 if it had not been for the CIA. The CIA devised Operation Ajax, paid a large sum to carry it out—estimates of the final cost range from $100,000 to $20 million, depending on which expenses are counted—and assigned one of its most imaginative agents to direct it. Yet Kermit Roosevelt and his comrades could not have succeeded without help from Iranians.
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