Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...declared them shut came during testimony by Secretary of State George Shultz at a closed hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week. Shultz said he ordered his emissaries home when he learned of the Iranians' continued demands for arms. In defiance of Shultz's orders, former CIA Agent George Cave stayed behind to hold further discussions with the Iranians...
This story is supported by Mansur Rafizadeh, a former high official in SAVAK, the Shah's secret police. Long a double agent serving both SAVAK and the CIA, Rafizadeh worked solely for the CIA after the Shah fell from power in 1979. According to Rafizadeh, Ghorbanifar first came to the CIA's attention in late 1980 when the Carter Administration was desperate to win the release of U.S. hostages from the seized American embassy in Tehran. George Cave, a retired CIA agent then working under a contract with the agency, asked Rafizadeh if Ghorbanifar could help. The former SAVAK agent...
...resented by the Iran desk, including Larry Larkin, one of its senior officers. Aware of the friction and needing the expertise of the desk's operatives, Casey offered them part of the action: they were asked to assess Ghorbanifar. Larkin first attempted to recruit Ghorbanifar as a CIA contract agent, which would put the Iranian under his control. When Ghorbanifar refused, Larkin and his colleagues set out to discredit him. This deepened Ghorbanifar's long-standing distrust...
...Lillian Garland, the loss of her $850-a-month job was the beginning of a wrenching struggle. Cal Fed eventually reinstated her, but she resigned last spring and now works as a real estate agent. "It's been five years of hell," Garland says of the long legal struggle. "But even if it had taken 20 years, I'd do it again. I felt like I was fighting for all women in the work force. Women should not have to choose between being a mother and having...
Lonetree, authorities said, had an affair with a female KGB agent who was reportedly working as a translator at the embassy. The woman took him home a number of times, introducing him to her "Uncle Sasha," who was actually a KGB agent. The translator had been among 260 Soviets employed by the U.S. embassy in Moscow and the consulate in Leningrad until the Kremlin pulled them out last October to protest Washington's expulsion of 80 Soviet diplomats...