The CIA has starting dispensing secrets out of nowhere. First, they admitted that Area 51 really is a thing. Then, they confessed to spying on Noam Chomsky, but only because his name sounds like former General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev’s sexting alias.
Now, they’ve acknowledged that, yes, they did take part in the 1953 Iran coup against left-leaning Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh, replacing their democratically elected leader with an autocratic Shah and a foreign council of oil tycoons. Or, in other words, why Iran really, really hates us. (Turns out it wasn’t for “our freedom.”)
So, why tell us all this now? Is the CIA dying of cancer and now they’re trying to get into Administrative Heaven? Did they open a eerily specific fortune cookie that restored their childlike sense of wonder and honesty? Or, are they telling us all this so that they can finally kill us after years of teasing us about it?