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kleinbl00  ·  3470 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Foreign Affairs: What really happened in Iran in 1953

I'd be reaaaaaaal careful about FP while you're at it. It's a lobbyist organization, no matter how much it pretends it isn't - kind of a right-wing counterbalance to the Union of Concerned Scientists.

It's useful right now for somebody to start the narrative of "what we did to Iran really wasn't that big of a deal" so that there's good'n'proper pushback on any deal with Iran.

As far as books, the first two are probably the broadest and a great place to start. Legacy of Ashes was a hell of a read, albeit kind of a bittersweet one post-Snowden; Wiener paints the CIA as this crippled, gelded organization with no real power when in fact their budget tripled after 9/11. Shit, they gained a goddamn air force.