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Covert U.S. regime change actions
The CIA was actively involved in promoting US interests abroad by overthrowing regimes that were deemed unfriendly. Many regimes were falsely accused of being communist as an excuse to garner presidential support for overthrowing the regime.Other regimes were overthrown because they threatened to nationalize important resources like oil or  to nationalize US owned companies [http://.www.serendipity.li/cia.html ].

==Iran and Mossadegh==

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==References==
* [[Stephan Kinzer]] ''Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq''
* [[Robert Fisk]] ''The Conquest of Civilization''
* [http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/johnson-chalmers2.html The Largest Covert Operation in CIA History] by
  [[Chalmers Johnson]]