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July 1978, NYT: SAVAK is both ubiquitous and ineffective; "many" #Iran protesters "express pro-American sentiments" and credit Jimmy Carter with forcing the #Shah's liberalization program [which began before Carter took office]; Bazargan quoted throughout cia.gov/library/readin…
September 1978: Gregory F. Rose suggests that the #Shah's government and secret police operated a more repressive system than the KGB in the Soviet Union. cia.gov/library/readin… This was the kind of nonsense being widely printed at the time. 
September 1980: CIA report on the "disappearance" of Imam Musa al-Sadr; doesn't know much and even now has not redacted huge parts of it: cia.gov/library/readin…
Musa al-Sadr was killed as part of the collaborative effort between Khomeini, Qaddafi, and the PLO to bring down the Shah of Iran. amzn.to/2U43kut
March 1982: The Washington Post reports that Soviet influence is increasing in Khomeini's Iran. cia.gov/library/readin…
This is months out from the theocracy breaking the Tudeh, which had given it cover and some organising ability to go after the other Leftists, esp Fedayeen.
This is months out from the theocracy breaking the Tudeh, which had given it cover and some organising ability to go after the other Leftists, esp Fedayeen.
