U.S. involvement in the 1953 coup that overthrew the elected prime minister of Iran and installed the Shah was not even officially admitted until Madeleine Albright acknowledged it in March of 2000, the year that witnessed the declassification of a flood of U.S. documents on the coup. Gasiorowski (political science, Louisiana State U.) and Byrne (research director of the George Washington U.- based National Security Archive) present seven papers of new research from scholars from the Iran, the US, and the former Soviet Union based on these uncovered archival sources as well as recently discovered documents from Iran and the former Soviet Union. The papers look at Iran's political environment in the early 1950s, the activities of the communist Tudeh party, British and American destabilization campaigns, and the factors that led the U.S. to undertake the coup. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR