CIA has been, continues to be and is implicated if not also an active driver in formerly U.S. corporations’ dominance (nowadays these are all pretty much multinational) abroad in the name of “protecting American interests” WTFTA. Insert American blood for oil arguments here.
In the early 20th century, the United Fruit Company, a multinational American corporation, was instrumental to the creation of the banana republic phenomenon.[7][8] Together with other American corporations, such as the Cuyamel Fruit Company, and with occasional support from the United States government, the corporations created the political, economic, and social circumstances that established banana republics in Central American countries such as Honduras and Guatemala.[9]
Pro-Shah mobs also carried out attacks on Mosaddegh opponents, and there may have been some CIA coordination.
