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Declassified is a document-driven investigative publication and historical archive. We follow the files, correspondence, inquiries and intelligence records that survive behind major events.
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THE RECORDTPAJAX: The Coup That Changed Iran
The documentary record of the 1953 overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh, from oil nationalization and British pressure to CIA planning, the failed first attempt, the collapse of the government, and the political order that followed.
Read the investigation →WHY DECLASSIFIED
The archive is part of the story.
01 / Primary sources
Read the documents, reports and records behind the investigation.
02 / Evidence assessment
Separate what is established from what is alleged, disputed or unknown.
03 / Permanent case files
Stories become durable records that can be updated as new documents emerge.
FROM THE RECORD
Latest investigations & discoveries
CASE FILE
02PBSUCCESS: How the United States Overthrew Guatemala’s Government
The documentary record of the CIA operation that removed Jacobo Árbenz in 1954, and the political, economic, and Cold War conflicts that surrounded it.
Open record →CASE FILE
03The Directive: How Washington Decided Lumumba Had to Go
In August 1960, less than two months after the Congo's independence, the CIA's director cabled instructions that would set in motion one of the most consequential covert operations of the Cold War in Africa.
Open record →THE INTELLIGENCE FILES
Follow the agencies, operations and records behind the public story.
Declassified records from intelligence services, governments, inquiries and archives, organized around the events they help explain.
Explore →THE COLLAPSE FILES
Reconstruct how states fracture, survive and fall.
Political conflict, foreign intervention, coups, proxy wars and economic pressure examined through the surviving record.
Explore →THE DOCUMENTS
Start with the record.
Original correspondence, intelligence assessments, government files, inquiry reports, photographs and other primary material.
Explore →BUILDING THE ARCHIVE
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