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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...
...Washington, and we have asked the FBI to help us. Some $19 million was spent by the ex-Shah's secret police [SAVAK] in 1976-77. The FBI wants to know whether the Alien Registration Act has been violated, and we want to know what SAVAK Chief Mansur Rafizadeh did with $8 million in 1976. There's no record of how it was spent or who got it. Another $11 million was transferred to the embassy during the imperial couple's mid-November visit to Washington in 1977. We gave the FBI considerable evidence on both cases...
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