1. The First CIA Coup: Oil, Iran, and MI6 (Ep 1)

The Rest Is Classified

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🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Welcome... to the first episode of The Rest Is Classified! It's Iran 1951. Mohammad Mossadegh, fuelled by an ever-growing nationalism, has just been elected Prime Minister. Immediately he chooses to nationalise the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, much to the anger of the British who control the majority stake. In response, MI6 are determined to destabilise his government and remove him from power. So they begin to conspire with the CIA. Kermit Roosevelt, grandson of Teddy Roosevelt and agency man, will go from Washington to Tehran and, building on existing instability, foment chaos on the streets. But it won't be plain sailing... Listen as David McCloskey and Gordon Corera tell the story of the 1953 Iranian coup orchestrated by the CIA and MI6. Get our exclusive NordVPN deal here ➼ www.nordvpn.com/restisclassified It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! Email: [email protected] Twitter: @triclassified Editor: Kieron Leslie Producer: Callum Hill Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:08.1	A frock-coated attendant appeared with tiny glasses of vodka and caviar canapes.
1:13.0	Then the Shah motioned me to seat myself.
1:15.0	He said to me, I owe my throne to God, my people, my army, and to you.
1:19.8	By you, he meant me and the two countries, Great Britain in the United States that I was representing.
1:24.7	We were all heroes.
1:26.0	Now I must say, sadly, that is no longer true.
1:29.2	What was a heroic story has gone on to become a tragic story. That, Gordon, is the message from
1:35.3	Kermit Roosevelt, the wonderfully named CIA officer and on-the-ground operational chief of a coup in
1:42.2	Iran in 1953, recalling those events in his memoir.
1:45.9	That's right. Welcome to the rest is classified. Today, we're telling the story of the
1:50.5	1953 coup in Iran, regime change in the Middle East engineered by the CIA and MI6.
1:58.2	And David, I guess like our podcast, that was an Anglo-American joint venture.
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