United States 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.

secret program of the US to bring German scientists, including former Nazis, into the US to work for the US government

American strategy until the end of the Cold War

WWII US special military intelligence

task force of the United States Department of Defense

U.S. Air Force effort to obtain a Soviet MiG-15

commercial sexual exploitation of children in South Korea

1944 US preparations to counter possible threats from Germany

23-year FBI counterintelligence operation against the Soviet Union

Director of the Defence intelligence Agency

castle near Kransberg in the Taunus mountains in the German state of Hesse