Iranian Shah's Savak - Comparable to Mossad & Shin Bet

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... primarily because it was an extension of Mossad & Shin Bet !

when I lived in San Diego I went to a dinner that one of the guys in my yoga class invited me to.

It was a Hare Krishna dinner, complete with chanting and vegetarian dinner (potates, vegetables, curry for spices).  This is in very yuppie North County San Diego.

One of the active participants in the thing was a guy about 30-35, who was the son of a career CIA family.  He lived in Tehran when he was a kid.

He was full of stories about, for example, the sheep-herders bringing their flocks into town.  Slaughtering them in a vacant field near the meat markets.  Wild dogs running around.  He wasn't trying to "dis" Iran, that's what it was like, from his experience.

Anyway, he talked a little about Savak.

Remembering that Mossadegh was deposed by "US & British agents", Teddy Roosevelt, etc.  OK well they don't mention Israel but we know who Israel's primary supporters are (US & British governments).

Anyway, he took a trip to Amsterdam and when he got back to Tehran, one of the Savak guys, perhaps just being friendly in some odd secret agent way, read back an itinerary of his various stops in Amsterdam.  Hash shops he visited, etc.

I don't know what happened to Savak when the Shah was kicked out in about 1979.  There was an article about the British journalist Peter Hounam, that reminded me of Savak.

In the case of Peter Hounam, he was detained by the Mossad/ Shin Bet.

Peter Hounam is the British journalist that helped break the Mordechai Vanunu story.

So there was a newspaper article about Israel's attempt to scare him.  They took him into custody, roughed him up, tried to scare him.

It sounded so much like the accounts of Savak that I have read.  My guess is, Savak used some of the "local talent" (hulking Iranian bar-bouncers, Iranian version of Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli defense minister who used to be a bar-bouncer in Russia) for its goon squad.  And that it was managed by Iranians and their American, Israeli, and British handlers.


"How I escaped Mossad's clutches
Israel's secret intelligence service is ruthless but reckless because it doesn't care about international opinion, says Peter Hounam, who was imprisoned by them.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/feature ... tches.html



"If Mossad was behind the murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel last month it should shock nobody. From my experience of the Israeli intelligence agencies, it is not their ruthlessness that is so remarkable but their disdain for international public opinion and tendency to take short cuts.

Hit teams dispatched by the spymasters of Tel Aviv have been surprisingly clumsy in exercising their licence to kidnap or kill around the world. Many operations have been botched, causing huge embarrassment to friendly countries.

My experience of them happened six years ago after I had gone to Israel on behalf of the BBC and The Sunday Times. The aim was to get the first interview with nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu on his release after 18 years in jail, 11 of them spent in solitary confinement. I ended up being accused of nuclear espionage myself.

In 1986, I had exposed Israel's nuclear weapons programme based on Vanunu's eyewitness testimony of his country's underground nuclear weapons plant where he had worked as a technician. He had then been kidnapped by Mossad, returned to Israel and convicted of treason and espionage.

Before he was freed in 2004, Vanunu was prohibited from talking to foreigners or leaving the country. Determined to overcome this, I assigned an Israeli journalist to interview him, with me sitting in the background. One copy of our film was impounded that night when being couriered out, but a second copy got to London. Soon afterwards while driving through the outskirts of Tel Aviv my luck ran out. "

OK so then the article talks about what it means to have his luck run out.