Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A farkon shekarun 1950, CIA ta jagoranci aikin FF, wani yunƙurin ɓoye don matsa lamba ga 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 ya cire
Firayim Ministan 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.