
Operation Ajax Pt. 2
CIA agent Kermit Roosevelt led a covert operation to overthrow Iran's Prime Minister in 1953.
March 17, 202146m 33s
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Show Notes
CIA agent Kermit Roosevelt led a covert operation to overthrow Iran's Prime Minister in 1953. But Operation Ajax didn’t go according to plan. Theories about it continue to this day, ranging from whether Roosevelt went rogue and hatched his own plan, to what Iranian politics would look like today without foreign intervention.
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