From: ghbr@fmg.bt.co.uk (Hossein Bagherzadeh Rafsanjani)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: BBC Unveils CIA Monetory Support for Iranian Opposition
Date: 17 Aug 92 10:56:37 GMT
Organization: British Telecom

In article <Bt3L1z.EAC@news.cso.uiuc.edu> yaser@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Ala) writes:

> This report is based on interviews with CIA operatives in Europe.
> Apparently people like Reza Pahlavi, General Madani, former Iranian
> president Bani Sadr and Manoochehr Ganji the manager of radio DERAFSHE
> KAAVIANI are among people who have been under CIA payroll.
> The report also unveils the friendship between William Casey, the former
> CIA director, and Reza Pahlavi, the son of deposed Shah of Iran.  In a 
> party Casey is heard to say that Reza Pahlavi will return to Iran with CIA help.
> Ganji, the director of a costly radio broadcast into Iran has contested
> the BBC revelations.  He has indicated that he has accepted the money only
> for the rescue of Iran (NEJAATE IRAN)!
> This piece of news was from an Iranian broadcast in D.C. area.
> Does anyone have any more info. on this (how about U.K. ahaali?)

I did post a summary of this program the day after it was broadcast in Britain.
But as our sysytem is very erratic here, it seem to have been lost.  So here is
a repeat.

Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast,soc.culture.iranian,alt.activism
From: ghbr@fmg.bt.co.uk (Hossein Bagherzadeh Rafsanjani)
Subject: CIA involvement in Iran
Organization: British Telecom
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 92 10:40:04 GMT

[Because of some interruptions in our system, it seems that the first attempt
at posting this on Thursday 30th July has failed.]


The final part of the TV documentary series on CIA shown on the British BBC1 TV
last night was devoted to the CIA's involvements in Iranian politics.  It
covered the CIA sponsered coup of 1953 against the democratic government of
Mossaddegh.  Kim Roosvelt who organised the mob demos and handed out the money
to the rioters setting the stage for the military coup explaned his tactics,
and how the Shah couldn't believe his fortune when he was told to go back to
Iran.  He labelled the Shah as a wimp, "even when he became a dictator, he was
a wimp dictator", he said.  He added that John Foster Dullace (sp?) the then
Secretary of State who had backed the CIA involvement in the coup was "very
pleased" with the results, though the President wasn't that much enthusiastic
about it.

The facts that the CIA was involved in the formation, and helped to run, the
Iranian secret service SAVAK were also mentioned, as well as the fact that the
agency was well aware of the torture routines being carried out by SAVAK.
Successive heads of the CIA also talked of the "lapse of intelligence" both
during the riots of 1963 and the revolution of 1979.  

The program then went on to highlight the involvement of the CIA in the
politics of post-revolutionaty Iran.  Monuchehr-e Ganji, who heads the
monarchist organisation "Derafsh-e Kaaviaani" acknowledged that he and his
organisation have been receiving financial aid from the CIA on a regular basis
which has also financed his radio station broadcasting from France (in Farsi).
Ansaari, the ex-associate of Reza Pahlavi (the Shah's eldest son) also
explained the backing and financial support they received from the CIA.
William Casey (the deceased CIA chief) was personally pampering Reza (on
Anssari's evidence) while at the same time organising the covert operation
selling arms to the Khomeini regime and diverting the exhorbitant
profits to support the contra bands in Nicaragua.

-hossein
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