New York Times upside down: Osamagate, Blowback

[sagehen]

 Barry Popik writes:

>OSAMAGATE, BLOWBACK
>
>   Two terms I've spotted.

An article in the Oct 15 /Nation/  by Chalmers Johnson has the following:

"'Blowback' is a CIA term first used in March 1954 in a recently
declassified report on the 1953 operation to overthrow the government of
Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran."

(....meaning chickens coming home to roost.)

A. Murie