File:CIA propaganda in Iran - "Along the Road Toward Dictatorship".pdf

English: The following document, Along the Road Toward Dictatorship, was declassified by the Central Intelligence Agency on June 21, 2011. It shortly preceded the fall of the government. Though undated, it’s clearly from early to mid August 1953 based on certain events cited. The author, who may have been CIA agent Donald Newton Wilber, leveled an array of charges against the Prime Minister. Many of them, such as “denial of freedom of speech and of assembly; and illegal arrests, torture and detention” were baseless. Others, like Mossadegh’s decision to dissolve the Majles, and his statement about democracy being the “will of the people”, are either misrepresented or portrayed through an ultra-cynical lens. Near its conclusion, the piece insinuates a Nazi-like tenor to Mossadegh’s messy rule.