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The first large scale regime change operation carried out by the CIA, in Iran

In 1953 the leader of the USSR, Joseph Stalin died. Shortly after, on April 16, US president Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his "cross of iron" speech, which warned against militarisation and the highlighted the wastefulness of military spending. On July 22, Eisenhower approved the CIA's bloody overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh, the democratically elected leader of Iran.[1]

CIA activities

The CIA had became more bold in its operations, in April starting Project MKUltra, an illegal mind control research programme, where psychoactive drugs and other chemicals, electroshocks, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, in addition to other forms of torture were used to gain control of individuals.

Operation Midnight Climax

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Operation Midnight Climax, a "free-wheeling illicit criminal" project which filmed the effects of prostitutes dosing up victims with drugs such as LSD.
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Operation Midnight Climax covertly dosed US victims with LSD and other drugs.

Iran/1953 coup d'état

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Wall Street successfully used the resources of the CIA to remove the elected leader of Iran in a bloody coup that was staged to protect the oil profits of the Seven Sisters. The now leaked report of the first Bilderberg commented thas "Americans saw that firm Western action in Persia... had produced successful results".[2] The CIA admitted its role in this event in a declassified document released in 2013.[3]

Zapata Oil

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George H. W. Bush set up Zapata Oil, an oil exploration business which never achieved much profitability in the usual financial sense, but which appears to have been used an effective front company for a variety of covert operations, including spying and money laundering. Bush was never prosecuted for its illegal operations.[4] Its records with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission were "lost" shortly after Bush became Vice President of the United States.

Cold War

US president Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his "cross of iron" speech, which warned against militarisation and the highlighted the wastefulness of military spending.


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References

  1. ↑ Document:The State, the Deep State, and the Wall Street Overworld‎
  2. ↑ https://wikispooks.com/wiki/File:BilderbergConferenceReport1954.pdf
  3. ↑ https://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/19/politics/cia-iran-1953-coup/index.html
  4. ↑ Jonathan Kwitny, "The Mexican Connection: A look at an old George Bush business venture", Barron's September 19, 1988. Cited with further discussion by Russ Baker, Family of Secrets (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009) pp. 37 and 505.