The CIA's use of bribery in Iran shows its undemocratic behavior in it's foreign policy. One example of this was when the CIA gave Iranian agents $50,000 to produce a crowd posing as communist agitators. This covert action was blatantly used to sabotage the democratically elected government, and is therefore undemocratic.
The CIA trained and equipped SAVAK, which served as the shah's personal secret police. This action taken by the CIA was undemocratic because instead of promoting freedom and fairness in the new government, they supported SAVAK, and by extension also supported the dictatorship-like conditions there.
The CIA's use of propaganda shows that they behaved undemocratically. They used $150,000 to create pamphlets and posters containing slanderous messages about the democratically elected leader, Mossadeq. The spreading of misinformation is evidently very undemocratic.
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