The quiet release of long-awaited and long-hidden CIA documents offers key details on how the U.S. and Britain overthrew Iran’s democratic government in 1953, says the National Security Archives’ Malcolm Byrne Story Transcript Aaron Maté: It’s The Real News, I’m Aaron Mate. In 1953, the U.S. and Britain overthrew Iran’s democratic government. The reason was […]
Author Archives: Malcolm Byrne
Malcolm Byrne is deputy director and research director at the nongovernmental National Security Archive based at The George Washington University. He runs the Iran-U.S. Relations Project which aims at studying the two countries’ differering national perspectives on the basis of documentation from a range of archives and interviews with current and former policy practitioners. His most recent book is Iran-Contra: Reagan’s Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power (Kansas, 2014).
