Haviland Smith: Crying terrorism to marshal public opinion

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Haviland Smith, of Williston, who is a retired CIA station chief who served in East and West Europe as well as the Middle East. He was chief of the counterterrorism staff and executive assistant to the CIA’s deputy director. His other writings can be seen on rural-ruminations.com.
In 1953, America participated in the overthrow of the only democratically elected government Iran has ever had by removing Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh from office