Cold War intelligence operations

On 19 August 1953, Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown in a coup d'état that strengthened the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. In the months preceding the coup, Mosaddegh had consolidated power by orchestrating an unconstitutional referendum to dissolve parliament that was widely described as fraudulent, and he later refused to step down after the Shah exercised his constitutional authority to dismiss him as prime minister. It was instigated by the United Kingdom (MI6), under the name Operation Boot and the United States (CIA), under the name TP-AJAX Project or Operation Ajax. A key motive was to protect British oil interests in Iran after Mosaddegh nationalized the country's oil industry.

Proposed false flag operation against the Cuban government that originated within the U.S. Department of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States government in 1962

coup d'état in Guatemala

CIA anti-Castro effort aka Operation Mongoose

Alleged Soviet spy

WWII US counterintelligence project

1960s CIA project to use cats for spying on the Kremlin and Soviet embassies

joint US/UK intelligence-gathering operation in Berlin in the 1950s

1974 CIA project to lift up the sunken Soviet submarine K-129

1962 Soviet military operation that preceded the Cuban Missile Crisis

June 1952 Baltic Sea military confrontation between Sweden and the USSR

secret program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency to influence on journalists to manipulate media coverage

1980s Soviet military intelligence program

1945–1955 British Secret Intelligence Service program to infiltrate its agents into Poland and Baltic states

Western covert paramilitary operation

CIA initiative targeting Cuba

Central Intelligence Agency domestic espionage project

activities by the Central Intelligence Agency in Occupation and post-Occupation Japan