[Alternate Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Edition of Volume 11] Documents from the Espionage Den: 1. Documents from the US Espionage Nest / 2. The US: Supporter of the Occupiers of Qods

Muslim Students following the Line of the Imam; CIA; US Government

Edité par Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Tehran, 1986

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A variant edition of Volume 11, printed by the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps. Undated c1980s. Different wraps 15x22cm, featuring CIA logo and Star of David, differently numbered and slightly differently titled to the front, with a quote from Imam Khomeini to the back. (1), A-G, 96pp containing the same introductory material and facsimiles as Volume 11, plus (46)pp additional facsimiles not in the other edition, issued without the Farsi translations and commentaries. Wraps and interiors very good. This reissues the Secret CIA paper "Israel - Foreign Intelligence and Security Services", March 1979, with general description, and sections on Mossad, Shin Beth, Military Intelligence, Research and Political Planning Center, the National Police, and Key Officials, with notes on sources. Also included is a Confidential CIA "Biographic Report: Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel", June 1974, along with several memos on various meetings and visits. These documents were translated and arranged by the Muslim Students Following the Line of the Imam, a pro-Khomeini group drawn from Tehran's major universities. At Khomeini's urging, they occupied the US Embassy on 4 November 1979 taking over 50 hostages to be exchanged for the Shah, then in the US. The US Press Attache recalled one of the students telling him "I'm a part of the Students Following the Line of the Imam. You?re in the nest of spies. You are part of US imperialism, and you're the corruptors of the Earth. You are our prisoner". The Students acquired a huge stack of classified material that Embassy staff were in the process of shredding, and reconstituted them with the help of local carpet weavers. To embarrass the US and its allies, many were published c1979-95 in a 77 volume series called "Documents from the US Espionage Den", and sold in a shop in front of the former Embassy. At least half covered Iran in sub-series relating to US interventions, the Shah, military support, political parties, key figures, useful contacts, the Kurds etc. The rest covered other countries, groupings or topics (Afghanistan, Egypt, Kuwait, Pakistan, Turkey, Palestine, Israel / Qods, Arabian Peninsula, OPEC, USSR, Communist countries, Non-Aligned countries, US agents in Paris, US policy, etc). The Federation of American Scientists assessed their significance as follows: "Along with voluminous embassy cable traffic, CIA intelligence assessments and estimates that remain classified in the US, some of the documents in the Iranian collection are of a sort that would never be released by the CIA, since they contain detailed information on sensitive sources. Indeed, at least one execution of a CIA source is directly attributable to the capture of these records. The collection offers a unique window on diplomatic and intelligence activity that is completely unobscured by classification constraints. The Iranian records cannot replace the CIA records of the 1953 coup in Iran that have been destroyed, since they originate overwhelmingly from the late 1970s. But they could add considerably to the history of that later period" (FAS Secrecy & Government Bulletin, n70, Sept 1997). Rare in commerce.

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• Titre: [Alternate Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Edition of Volume 11] Documents from the Espionage Den: 1. Documents from the US Espionage Nest / 2. The US: Supporter of the Occupiers of Qods
• Éditeur: Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Tehran
• Date de parution: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Soft cover
• État de l'article: Good