Topic: Black Gold Spies

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Jay Dyer references Gilles Meunier's book "Black Gold Spies" to detail the history of espionage surrounding oil interests. He discusses the 1953 CIA coup in Iran that overthrew Mohamed Mossadegh to protect the interests of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now BP). Dyer notes that imperial powers have historically used religious cover, such as missionaries, to conduct espionage.