General Manouchehr Hashemi (

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: منوچهر هاشمی; 16 July 1918,

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— 7 October 2007) was an Iranian intelligence officer for the Shah's

SAVAK SAVAK ( fa, ساواک, abbreviation for ''Sâzemân-e Ettelâ'ât va Amniat-e Kešvar'', ) was the secret police, domestic security and intelligence service in Iran during the reign of the Pahlavi dynasty. SAVAK operated from 1957 until prim ...

. He was the head of the provincial offices of SAVAK in Fars and Khorasan provinces, and later head of its

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department commonly known as department VIII. After his career as an Army Infantry officer, he became one of SAVAK's longest-serving senior officers (serving from 1957 to 1979''The Iranian'', 11 June 1998
A sober look at SAVAK
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. Excerpts from Hashemi's history of SAVAK were published in ''

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'' in 1988. Hashemi played a minor role in the Iran-Contra Affair, introducing

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Manucher Ghorbanifar Manucher Ghorbanifar ( fa, منوچهر قربانی‌فر; nicknamed Gorba, born May 9, 1945) is an expatriate Iranian arms dealer and former SAVAK agent. According to the ''Washington Report on Middle East Affairs'', Ghorbanifar was a double a ...

and

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(brother of

Mehdi Karroubi Mehdi Karroubi ( fa, مهدی کروبی, Mehdi Karrubi, born 26 September 1937) is an Iranian Shia cleric and reformist politician leading the National Trust Party. Following 2009–2010 Iranian election protests, Karroubi was put under house a ...

).Lee H. Hamilton, Daniel K. Inouye (1995)
Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair
DIANE Publishing, p526

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