Sem2.HW4

How does the CIA's activities in Iran show that the US behaves undemocratically in its foreign policy?

The CIA trained the SAVAK, which was the shah's personal secret police. This was undemocratic because supporting shah will sort of creating a dictatorship. Shah can dictate SAVAK to do things without the people's knowledge. And one can never know if the shah will use the secret police to take over the country.

The CIA used propaganda to ruin Mossadeq, the democratically elected leader. The CIA used $150'000 to create crap about Mossadeq. Politically speaking, saying bad things about the other parties is considered bad thing and extremely undemocratic if this was done in a cheap way like propaganda.