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November 1952-August 1953
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The Times wrote in an introductory note that names of participants in the overthrow were digitally edited from the report “after consultations with historians who believed there might be a serious risk that the families of some of those named as foreign agents would face retribution in Iran.”
Cryptome has recovered the majority of the edited text of the files and is publishing the report unedited except for unrecoverable redactions, and Sections IX and X as well as four appendices which were not edited. The restored text is shown here.
CS Historical Paper No. 208 CLANDESTINE SERVICE HISTORY OVERTHROW OF PREMIER MOSSADEQ OF IRAN November 1952-August 1953 Date written : March 1954 Date publsihed: October 1969 Written by : Dr. Donald N. Wilber S E C R E T TABLE OF CONTENTS Page HISTORIAN'S NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i SUMMARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii I. PRELIMINARY STEPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II. DRAFTING THE PLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 III. CONSOLIDATING THE OPERATIONAL PLAN . . . . . . . . . 12 IV. THE DECISIONS ARE MADE: ACTIVITY BEGINS . . . . . . 16 V. MOUNTING PRESSURE AGAINST THE SHAH . . . . . . . . . 22 VI. THE FIRST TRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 VII. APPARENT FAILURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 VIII. "THE SHAH IS VICTORIOUS" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 IX. REPORT TO LONDON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 X. WHAT WAS LEARNED IN THE OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . 85 APPENDICES A Initial Operation Plan for TPAJAX, as Cabled from Nicosia to Headquarters on 1 June 1953 B "London" Draft of the TPAJAX Operational Plan C Foreign Office Memorandum of 23 July 1953 from British Ambassador Wakins to under Secretary of State Smith D Report on Military Planning Aspect of TPAJAX E Military Critique - Lessons Learned from TPAJAX re Military Planning Aspects of Coup d'Etat ii S E C R E T |