CIA admits the 1953 Iranian coup it backed installing 'American puppet' Shah regime was 'undemocratic' - as it reveals new details of rescue mission that inspired Ben Affleck movie Argo

The admission came in a recent episode of the CIA's podcast, The Langley Files, released about a month before the unprecedented Hamas attack on Israel last weekend.

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