In 1953, the United States overthrew the only democratic leader Iran ever had; Mossedegh, at the request of the British SIS (MI6).\n\nMossedegh had decided to stop Britain from stealing it\'s natural resources (Oil) & give the profits back to the rightful owner\'s, namely the Iranian people.\n\nHaving expelled British dimplomats from the country, the British turned to America to plan & operate the coup.\n\nAfterwards, the United States reinstalled the Shah & trained his brutal secret police force; The Savak, who killed & tortured 1000\'s of people for decades.\n\n***********************************\nThe CIA in Iran\nNew York Times Special\n\n* Britain, fearful of Iran\'s plans to nationalize its oil industry, came up with the idea for the coup in 1952 and pressed the United States to mount a joint operation to remove the prime minister.\n\n\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index.html\n\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-chapter3.html\n\n***********************************\n\nCIA Declassified documents:\n(courtesy of the NYT)\n\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/iran-cia-intro.pdf\n\nSame from George Washington University:\n\nhttp://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB28/index.html#documents\n\n***********************************\n\nC.I.A. Destroyed Files on 1953 Iran Coup\nNew York Times\nPublished: May 29, 1997\n\nhttp://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E6DB123AF93AA15756C0A961958260\n\n***********************************\n\nTorture\'s Teachers\nNew York Times Article\nJune 11, 1979\n\n\"the C.I.A. sent an operative to teach interrogation methods to SAVAK, the Shah\'s secret police, that the training included instructions in torture, and the techniques were copied from the Nazis.\"\n\nhttp://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10C15F93E5D12728DDDA80994DE405B898BF1D3&scp=1&sq=Torture%92s+Teachers&st=p\n\nhttp://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/langguthleaf.html\n\n***********************************\n\nREFORMING U.S. INTELLIGENCE, Allan E. Goodman \n\n\"The CIA\'s close relationship with SAVAK also caused the agency to refuse to collect information - under ground rules set by the White House against spying on the shah - about the torture and other abuses that this secret-police organization used to repress the regime\'s opponents.\"\n\n\nAllan E. Goodman former Presidential Briefing Coordinator for the Director of Central Intelligence and Special Assistant to the Director of the National Foreign Assessment Center in the Carter administration. \n\n\nhttp://www.foreignpolicy.com/Ning/archive/archive/067/goodman.PDF\n\n***********************************\n\n\"Nobody Influences Me!\"\narticle in Time Magazine\nMonday, Dec. 10, 1979\n\n\n\"In 1957, with the help of the CIA, he set up SAVAK, the notorious secret police, to crack down on dissidents.\"\n\n\"There is no longer any dispute that SAVAK practiced systematic torture.\"\n\n\"President Nixon gave the Shah carte blanche to buy all the American weapons he desired.\"\n\n\"Amnesty International in the 1970s described other methods of torture: electric shock, burning on a heated metal grill, and the insertion of bottles and hot eggs into the anus. Last spring Anne Burley, an Amnesty International researcher, was shown by the government a SAVAK file that she deems authentic, containing pictures of victims who had been tortured to death. Several were women, she says, and \"in each case the breasts were mutilated.\"\n\n\nSearch: \"Nobody Influences Me!\" In Google for full 9 page Time Magazine Article.\n\n***********************************

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