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一 |     这是一篇来自 Ryan McCaffrey 的评论文章。

二 |     DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- While revealing new details about one of the most famed CIA operations of all times — the spiriting out of six American diplomats who escaped the 1979 U.S. Embassy seizure in Iran — the intelligence agency for the first time has acknowledged something else as well.The CIA now officially describes the 1953 coup it backed in Iran that overthrew its prime minister and cemented the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as undemocratic.Other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, but the CIA's acknowledgment in a podcast about the agency's history comes as much of its official history of the coup remains classified 70 years after the putsch. That complicates the public's understanding of an event that still resonates, as tensions remain high between Tehran and Washington over the Islamic Republic's rapidly advancing nuclear program, its aiding of militia groups across the Mideast and as it cracks down on dissent. The “CIA’s leadership is committed to being as open with the public as possible," the agency said in a statement responding to questions from The Associated Press. "The agency’s podcast is part of that effort — and we knew that if we wanted to tell this incredible story, it was important to be transparent about the historical context surrounding these events, and CIA’s role in it.”In response to questions from the AP, Iran's mission to the United Nations described the 1953 coup as marking “the inception of relentless American meddling in Iran’s internal affairs” and dismissed the U.S. acknowledgments.“The U.S. admission never translated into compensatory action or a genuine commitment to refrain from future interference, nor did it change its subversive policy towards the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the mission said in a statement. The CIA's podcast, called “The Langley Files” as its headquarters is based in Langley, Virginia, focused two recent episodes on the story of the six American diplomats' escape. While hiding at the home of the Canadian ambassador to Iran, a two-man CIA team entered Tehran and helped them fly out of the country while pretending to be members of a crew scouting for a made-up science fiction film.The caper, retold in the 2012 Academy Award-winning film “Argo” directed by and starring Ben Affleck, offered a dramatized version of the operation, with Affleck playing the late CIA officer Antonio “Tony” Mendez. The podcast for the first time identified the second CIA officer who accompanied Mendez, naming him as agency linguist and exfiltration specialist Ed Johnson. He previously only had been known publicly by the pseudonym “Julio.”“Working with the six — these are rookies," Johnson recounts in an interview aired by the podcast. "They were people who were not trained to lie to authorities. They weren’t trained to be clandestine, elusive.” But in the podcast, another brief exchange focuses on the 1953 coup.In it, CIA spokesman and podcast host Walter Trosin cites the claims of agency historians that the majority of the CIA’s clandestine activities in its history “bolstered” popularly elected governments.“We should acknowledge, though, that this is, therefore, a really significant exception to that rule,” Trosin says of the 1953 coup.CIA historian Brent Geary, appearing on the podcast, agrees.“This is one of the exceptions to that," Geary says.Seven decades later, the 1953 coup remains as hotly debated as ever by Iran, its theocratic government, historians and others. Iran's hard-line state television spent hours discussing the coup that toppled Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh on its anniversary in June. In their telling, a straight line leads from the coup to the 1979 Islamic Revolution that ultimately toppled the fatally ill shah. It still fuels the anti-Americanism that colors decisions made by the theocracy, whether in arming Russia in its war on Ukraine or alleging without evidence that Washington fomented the recent nationwide mass protests targeting it. From the U.S. side, the CIA's hand in the coup quickly was revealed as a success of Cold War espionage, though historians in recent years have debated just how much influence the agency's actions had. It also led the CIA into a series of further coups in other countries, including Guatemala, where American clandestine action in 1954 installed a military dictator and sparked a 40-year civil war that likely killed some 245,000 people.That's led to an American political reappraisal of the 1953 CIA action in Iran. Then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright acknowledged the U.S.' "significant role" in the coup in 2000. President Barack Obama, speaking in Cairo in 2009, described the CIA's work as leading to the “overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government.” But largely absent from the discussion was the CIA itself. After years of conflicting versions of the coup both in public and classified papers, a member of the CIA's own in-house team of historians wrote a reappraisal of the operation in a 1998 paper titled “Zendebad, Shah!” in Farsi — or “Long Live the Shah!”But despite a series of American historical documents being made public, including a major tranche of State Department papers in 2017, large portions of that CIA reappraisal remain heavily redacted despite attempts to legally pry them loose by the George Washington University-based National Security Archive. That's even after pledges by former agency directors Robert Gates and James Woolsey Jr. in the 1990s to release documents from that coup and others engineered by the agency. Further complicating any historical reckoning is the CIA's own admission that many files related to the 1953 coup likely had been destroyed in the 1960s.“It’s wrong to suggest that the coup operation itself has been fully declassified. Far from it," said Malcolm Byrne of the National Security Archive. "Important parts of the record are still being withheld, which only contributes to public confusion and encourages myth-making about the U.S. role long after the fact.”。他在初代 Xbox 和 Xbox 360 时代的 2002 年至 2012 年期间任职于《官方 Xbox 杂志》（Official Xbox Magazine），随后加入媒体并一直担任“Xbox 达人”。在 Xbox 25 周年即将到来之际，他将分享这四分之一个世纪以来关于该平台的记忆。

三 | 早在 2004 年，Halo 2 是史上最受期待的视频游戏。当时我正处于《官方 Xbox 杂志》Halo 2 报道的最前线，这意味着我获得了一个游戏记者所能得到的最令人兴奋的机会之一：我是 Bungie 墙外第一批玩到这款里程碑式续作的人之一。而且，我是在一个储藏室里完成的。这个故事始于 2002 年的 Halo 2 官方发布预告片。我想我们很多人都会一致认为，它仍然是史上制作最精良的视频游戏预告片。当我观看它时，依然——依然！——会起鸡皮疙瘩。士官长沉着冷静地准备从飞船跳向数千英尺外的星盟巡洋舰（再次强调，是在外层空间），在警报声中武装自己。Cortana 的声音中带着好奇问：“如果你没打中呢？”士官长毫不犹豫地回答：“我不会。”然后他跳出气闸，Halo 的主题曲响起。光是打出这段文字我就感到一阵战栗。

四 | 那段预告片开启了长达 18 个月的艰难等待。Halo 2 从最初的 2003 年假期档推迟到了次年。

五 | 为了向粉丝保证不会再次跳票，当时的 Xbox 掌门人、营销大师 Peter Moore 在当年的 E3 上上演了一场惊人的公关秀：他在二头肌上“纹”了 Halo 2 的 Logo 和 2004 年 11 月 9 日的发售日期。

六 | 同样在那届 E3 上，我第一次上手试玩了 Halo 2，在微软展台的闭门演示中，在 Zanzibar 地图上玩了一轮又一轮的单旗夺旗模式。几个月后，我飞往 Bungie 进行了整整一天的多人模式试玩。这可能是我参加过的最有趣的游戏预览活动。

七 | 然后时间到了 9 月。

八 | 11 月 9 日迫在眉睫，在那个年代，游戏必须在压盘和大规模生产实体盘之前彻底完工。当时一切都是实体版，没有数字版，开发商也没有首日补丁可以依赖。此外，纸质杂志的制作周期很长——大约两个月。

九 | 这意味着《官方 Xbox 杂志》必须在 9 月份完成 Halo 2 的评测，才能确保评测在 11 月 9 日之前出现在报摊和订阅者的信箱里。

十 | 我们与 Bungie 达成了协议：我们将获得独家评测权（这在当时是常见做法）。9 月下旬，我们的主编 Rob Smith 和我飞往 Bungie，在他们的办公室里花了整整两天时间玩这款游戏。

十一 | 在此之前，我已经有幸在两个不同的场合玩过 Halo 2 的多人模式，而现在，我和 Rob 将成为 Bungie 和微软之外首批玩到并通关这款万众瞩目的战役模式的人。我们到达后，Bungie 把我们安置在储藏室里（谢天谢地，那里有窗户）的两台独立的 Xbox 上，这样 Bungie 的人就不会打扰我们重要的报道工作，或许更多是为了防止我们打扰他们。我和 Rob 都戴着耳机，我们调整了位置，确保谁也看不见对方的屏幕，以免有人进度落后而看到剧透。我真的以为播放制作人员名单是一个 Bug，最后一关没有正常触发。我不记得第一天玩到了哪里，但在第二天，终点已近在咫尺。剧情已经让我感到震惊——记住，神风烈士（Arbiter）的可玩性在发售前是完全保密的，就像第一款游戏发售前洪魔（Flood）被隐藏起来一样——但接下来发生的事情险些成为我职业生涯中最尴尬的时刻。战役一直在为士官长回到地球并“结束战斗”做铺垫。当我以神风烈士的身份击败塔塔洛斯时，我非常兴奋。“终于，”我想，“我们要切换回士官长，在地球上进行一场疯狂的最终决战了！”但相反，在塔塔洛斯倒下后，制作人员名单开始滚动。

十二 | 我困惑地环顾四周。

十三 | 我看向 Rob 的进度——我刚才超过了他一点，所以他还没遇到这个“Bug”。是的，我真的以为播放制作人员名单是一个 Bug，最后一关没有正常触发。

十四 | 我内心挣扎着。“我要去跟人说一声吗？”我好几次想起身，但最终还是忍住了，屁股稳稳地坐在椅子上，看着名单滚完。

十五 | 在名单结束并把我带回主菜单大约 20 或 30 分钟后，Rob 完成了战役，果然，同样的事情也发生在他身上。他不像我那么震惊，但也确实吃了一惊。

十六 | 那天晚上的晚餐，我们设法向 Bungie 的人提到了这件事。

十七 | 我不记得具体是怎么说的，但我记得我们处理得非常小心。

十八 | 我清晰记得的是，Bungie 的那个人说：“这是我们的《帝国反击战》。

十九 | ”我们在最后一天玩了大量的多人模式，结束了这次行程。然后在 Rob 酒店房间的私密空间里，我们讨论了刚刚玩过的战役以及我们要给出的分数。Rob 将是撰写正式评测的人——身为总编当然有特权！——但我深度参与了这个过程。我们最终给出了 9.7 分（满分 10 分），这是该杂志当时给出的最高分，超过了 Halo 1 的 9.5 分和初代 细胞分裂7 的 9.6 分。（这个最高分纪录没保持多久——我在次年给另一款游戏打了 9.9 分。

| ）你可能还记得，多年后 Bungie 承认确实计划了一个最终的地球关卡，但为了赶上 11 月 9 日的发售日而将其删减了。因此，Halo 2 与其说是结束了，不如说是戛然而止。这是这款在各方面都堪称伟大的游戏唯一的瑕疵，而从长远来看，这款游戏的品质经受住了时间的考验。士官长与神风烈士旅程的平行叙事是非常出色的故事创作，它拥有像甲壳虫坦克战和桥上坦克大战等宏大场面。但谢天谢地，在外界任何人还没玩到这款游戏之前，我没有跑去告诉 Bungie 他们的游戏坏了。有时候，保持沉默就是最好的表达。无论如何，我依然爱你，Halo 2。

| 你是我最喜欢的一作。Xbox 25 周年更多关于我这四分之一个世纪以来撰写 Xbox 游戏的回忆，请查看以下故事：对不起 Halo，但 细胞分裂7 Chaos Theory 才是初代 Xbox 最好的游戏初代的 Mass Effect 绝对是三部曲中故事最好的，毋庸置疑局外人局内人outsiders&insiders 是我玩过最接近“完美”的游戏蝙蝠侠：阿卡姆疯人院 标志着“劣质授权游戏”时代的终结Xbox 360 上的 Fight Night Round 3 是高清时代第一款让人惊叹的游戏星球大战：旧共和国武士™™II：西斯领主™ 让 RPG 在 Xbox 上变得名正言顺Ryan McCaffrey 是预览版执行主编，也是每周 Xbox 节目 Podcast Unlocked 的主持人，以及 Next-Gen Console Watch 的联合主持人。

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