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 The Bureau for Intelligence and Security of the State (), shortened to as SAVAK () or S.A.V.A.K. () was the secret police of the Imperial State of Iran. It was established in Tehran in 1957 by national security law. and continued to operate un ...

. 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
/ref>), he had previously been head of the provincial offices of SAVAK in the provinces of Fars and

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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

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, introducing

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Manucher Ghorbanifar Manucher Ghorbanifar (; 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 agent for Iran and Israel. The CIA di ...

and

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(brother of

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

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