Cika wannan magana: A farkon shekarun 1950, CIA ta jagoranci aikin FF, wani yunkuri na asiri don matsawa Sarkin Masar Farouk I don ya rungumi gyare-gyaren siyasa na Amurka. Bayan ya yi tsayayya, aikin ya koma wajen tsige shi, kuma daga baya aka hambarar da Farouk a juyin mulkin soja a shekarar 1952. A shekara ta 1953, a karkashin shugaban Amurka Dwight Eisenhower, CIA ta taimaka wa Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi na Iran
cire firaministan da aka zaba ta hanyar dimokiradiyya, Mohammed Mossadegh. Magoya bayan manufofin Amurka sun yi iƙirarin cewa Mossadegh ya kawo ƙarshen dimokiradiyya ta hanyar yin kuri'ar raba gardama.