C.I.A. Coup in Iran: Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq, November 1952-August 1953 by Donald N. Wilber

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This document is about the C.I.A.’s assistance to the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), now called MI-6, in the overthrow of the democratically elected Premier Mossadegh of Iran is based on the earlier work of the National Security Archive at George Washington University and the investigations of the New York Times. See the National Security Archive’s work at https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB28/ and the New York Times’ report at
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index.html.

According to the National Security Archive, “This extremely important document is one of the last major pieces of the puzzle explaining American and British roles in the August 1953 coup against Iranian Premier Mohammad Mossadeq.  Written in March 1954 by Donald Wilber, one of the operation’s chief planners, the 200-page document is essentially an after-action report, apparently based in part on agency cable traffic and Wilber’s interviews with agents who had been on the ground in Iran as the operation lurched to its conclusion.