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Posted: 11th September 2023

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Declassified British files highlight a little known aspect of the joint MI6/CIA coup against Iran’s democratically elected government in August 1953 – UK covert action in support of leading radical Shia Islamists, the predecessors of Ayatollah Khomeini.

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Exclusive: A British professor serving in the cabinet of Gabon’s autocratic government talks to Declassified about the military takeover.

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When the Chilean military overthrew Salvador Allende’s democratically elected government in September 1973, UK officials supported and worked with the new junta as it indulged in widespread atrocities, declassified files show.

As the Pinochet regime rounded up and murdered its political opponents after the 1973 coup, a UK Foreign Office propaganda unit passed material to Chile’s military intelligence and MI6 connived with a key orchestrator of the coup, newly declassified files show.

A tank capable of firing depleted uranium shells has been destroyed in Ukraine, sparking health concerns.

The UK government is seeking to retrospectively legalise the wrongful imprisonment-without-trial of up to 200 Irish people in the 1970s – removing their right to compensation.

Britain’s monarchy met Gabon’s ruling family more than a dozen times before last week’s military coup, amid regular election rigging and mounting concerns about embezzlement.

Fifty years after the murderous coup in Chile, the UK’s most important political artist recounts how the Barbican censored his work to placate high-ranking Chilean finance officials and British bankers.

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In Santiago, Declassified spoke with Pablo Sepúlveda Allende about Margaret Thatcher’s friendship with Chile’s dictator and how Labour helped him evade justice for crimes against humanity.