The secret CIA history of the Iran Coup, 1953
By: edited by Malcolm Byrne
Contributors: Gasiorowski, Mark J., 1954-; Risen, James; National Security Archive (U.S.)
Series: National Security Archive electronic briefing book -- no. 28; National Security Archive electronic briefing book -- no. 28.
Publisher: [National Security Archive, George Washington University]
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Computer network resources; History; Sources; Politics and government; Relations; Foreign relations; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; United States
Description: Site consists of a summary and four appendixes of a 200-page document detailing the CIA history of operation TPAJAX, including American and British roles in the August 1953 coup against Iranian Premier Mohammad Mossadeq. Also includes analysis of the material (originally disclosed by James Risen of the New York Times in its editions of April 16, 2000). Provides links to information on the Archive's lawsuit against the CIA to force the declassification of key documents on the Agency's role in the European elections of 1948 and the 1953 coup in Iran, comments by five former CIA directors and others on the Agency's declassification policies, and the complaint filed with U.S. District Court on May 13, 1999.
Notes: Title from opening screen as viewed Aug. 11, 2000.

"April 21, 2000."

"Preliminary analysis of the document by Prof. Mark Gasiorowski."

Text (.htm files, .gif image files of documents) and images (.jpg files)

Mode of access: Internet via the World Wide Web.

System requirements: Internet access; WWW browser software.
Table of contents: title: CIA Clandestine Service History, "Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of Iran, November 1952-August 1953," March 1954 [excerpt], by Dr. Donald Wilber. Cover sheet, table of contents and summary ; Appendix A, Initial operational plan for TPAJAX as cabled from Nicosia to Headquarters on 1 June 1953 ; Appendix B, "London" draft of the TPAJAX operational plan ; Appendix C, Foreign Office memorandum of 23 July 1953 from British Ambassador Makins to Assistant Secretary of State Smith ; Appendix E, Military critique : lessons learned from TPAJAX re military planning, aspects of Coup d'Etat.