Part Two : HISTORY LESSONS....Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of IRAN

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 2, 2000 – Lawyers for the National Security Archive today filed in federal district court (in paper and CD-ROM formats) a legal challenge to the CIA’s claim that only one line out of 350 pages of internal histories can be released under the Freedom of Information Act without damaging U.S. national security. The histories cover CIA operations in Italy in 1948 and in Iran in 1953, two subjects that CIA directors Robert Gates, James Woolsey, and John Deutch all specifically identified as priorities for CIA declassification and promised the release of documents. But when the National Security Archive, the George Polk Award-winning research institute at George Washington University, filed Freedom of Information requests for the histories in 1998, the CIA refused to release the documents.
You can read all the ducuments here : http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/ciacase/ which also includes : Clandestine Service History: Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of Iran, November 1952-August 1953, March 1954 Please also read : http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB126/index.htm
And :
Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran
The Secret CIA History of the Iran Coup, 1953
20 Years after the Hostages: Declassified Documents on Iran and the United States
Iran: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977-1980
The Iran-Contra Affair: The Making of a Scandal, 1983-1988