On Thursday, The Associated Press quoted the agency as saying that the “CIA’s leadership is committed to being as open with the public as possible” regarding the 1953 coup in Iran.
The CIA said in a statement responding to questions from The Associated Press about the coup that “the agency’s podcast is part of that effort — and we knew that if we wanted to tell this incredible story, it was important to be transparent about the historical context surrounding these events, and CIA’s role in it.”
CIA spokesman and podcast host Walter Trosin cited the claims of the agency’s historians that the majority of the CIA’s activities in its history “bolstered” popularly elected governments; however, “we should acknowledge, though, that this is, therefore, a really significant exception to that rule.”
Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright acknowledged in 2000 the United States’ significant role in the coup. Former US President Barack Obama, speaking in Cairo in 2009, also described the CIA’s work as leading to the “overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government.”
Iran’s mission to the United Nations responded to The Associated Press in a statement by saying that “the US admission never translated into compensatory action or a genuine commitment to refrain from future interference, nor did it change its subversive policy towards the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
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