Relationship between the government and the services.Embassy in Tehran, most of them discussing U.S.-Israeli-Iranian relations (documenting the close collaboration between Mossad and the Shah's intelligence agency SAVAK). Other documents are cables between the State Department and the U.S. The main document reprinted here is an in-depth CIA analysis of Israeli intelligence, written in March 1979 and classified secret. angle." Other disclosures were simply glossed over - systematic Israeli suppression of domestic dissent, for example, or Mossad (Israel's CIA) and Israeli military intelligence support for repressive regimes in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and even Mossad's "psycholgical warfare projects." A careful reading of the documents illustrates that the Washington Post's analysis was narrowly focussed on the "U.S. The documents supplied to CounterSpy deal with the triangle of U.S.-Israeli-Iranian relations. They expose covert CIA operations in Iran (an attempt to recruit former Prime Minister Bani Sadr, for example), reveal the CIA's use of corporate covers, and detail former Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan's attempts to establish ties with U.S. intelligence. The 13 volumes of documents are a goldmine.
(Some of the volumes were supplied to the Washington Post which analyzed them in a series running from January 31 to February 6, 1982.) The FBI and Customs officials seized their luggage and confiscated the documents - with the active assistance of Lufthansa (West German) Airlines.īut a second set of the books - sent by another route - was overlooked by customs and reached the U.S. In late November 1981 they had completed their assignment for CBS and flew home. The three journalists picked up a set at an airport on their way to Shiraz. These documents, made available to CounterSpy by journalists Randy Goodman, Terri Taylor and William Worthy, are only a fraction of a 13 volume paperback set (complete with commentary) readily available for sale in Iran. Some were complete, others which had gone through a shredding machine were painstakingly pieced together.
They were discovered by the Iranian students who took over the U.S. The secret CIA and State Department documents printed here have come a long way. What Begin and Reagan Didn't Want You to Know CounterSpy: Secret CIA Documents on Mossad