Soviet-Iranian Relations Archives - Foundation for Iranian Studies

Yatsevitch, Colonel Gratian*

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:06:12 +0000

Educational background; beginnings of career at CIA; CIA’s objectives and operations in Iran in the 1950s; recollections of Allen Dulles; U.S. strategic interest in Iran in the 1950s; impressions of the Shah, and memories of their meetings; on the Shah’s goals and objectives; CIA’s views on the Shah; relations between the U.S. and Iran during the Eisenhower administration; recollections of the early years of SAVAK and General Teymur Bakhtiyar; recollections of Ambassadors Chapin, Wailes and Holmes, and their relations with the Shah; on social and economic change in Iran; debates between CIA analysts over political stability in Iran; U.S. contacts with and assessments of the opposition to the Shah in the 1950s and 1960s; on General Qarane’i’s alleged coup plans; extent of the loyalty of the armed forces to the Shah in the 1950s and 1960s; relations between the National Front and the Kennedy administration; on U.S. and the premiership of Ali Amini; working of oil consortiums in Iran; on the riots at Tehran University in 1961; recollections of Amir Asadollah Alam and Hasan Arsanjani; on the White Revolution of 1963; Johnson’s trip to Iran; Iran-Soviet relations; Israel’s relations with Iran; extent of cooperations between CIA and SAVAK; on U.S. listening posts in Iran; on events of 1963-64; economic development and corruption.

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Wright, Sir Denis

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:06:12 +0000

Recollections of service in Iran in the 1950s and of first meeting with the Shah; on the re-establishment of relations between Iran and Britain after the events of 1953; on the policies of Prime Minister Mosaddeq, Britain’s views on his government, and the events which led to his fall from power; on the Shah’s decision to sign a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union; on CENTO; recollections of Seyyed Ziyaoddin Tabataba’i; impressions of the Iranian political scene as ambassador to Iran, 1963-71; on various Iranian political leaders; on the negotiations between Iran and Great Britain over Bahrain; changes in the Iranian leaders’ dealings with foreign powers; recollections of the events of 1963-64; on Anglo-Iranian relations between 1963 and 1971; on the roots of the Revolution of 1978-79; Soviet policy towards Iran; on the Shah’s suspicion of British intentions and his sensitivity to British policies.

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Varahram, General Karim

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:06:12 +0000

Recollections of the formative years of the Iranian armed forces; recollections of Reza Shah, his leadership style, and his relations with the armed forces; fate of the Iranian army during the allied occupation of Iran; on the Azarbayjan crisis of 1945-46; recollections of service in Azarbayjan during the Soviet occupation and the formation of the Pishevari government; on the structure and mode of operation of the Iranian armed forces; recollection of the various leaders of the armed forces, and political leaders of Iran; on the relations between Iran and Iraq following Colonel Qasem’s military coup of 1958; impact of the events of 1963-64 in Fars; recollections of the Senate and assessment of its role in the politics of Iran in the 1970s; on the Shah and impressions of a meeting with him in 1978.

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Pejman, Colonel Issa

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:07:02 +0000

Intelligence activities against Tudeh Party cells in the military; recollections of General Razmara’s premiership; on the events of 1953; structure and operations of SAVAK’s Kurdish Affairs Bureau; recollections of Mulla Mustafa Barzani; on the plan for joint Iranian, American and Israeli assistance to the Iraqi Kurds; on the contacts between Iranian and Iraqi Kurds; recollections of General Teymur Bakhtiyar and his activities in Iraq; impact of the military coup of 1958 in Iraq on Iran-Iraq relations; rapport between Iran and Iraq during the Qasem and Aref regimes; recollections of Aref’s trip to Iran; memory of a meeting with Saddam Hossein; on the Algiers Accord of 1975.

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Niyazmand, Reza

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:07:02 +0000

Family and educational background; on industrial development in Iran during the Reza Shah period; German contribution to industrial development in Iran; industrial planning and development in Iran; on the Plan and Budget Organization in the 1950s; Plan and Budget Organization under Abol-Hasan Ebtehaj; industrial planning at the Ministry of Economy; on Ali Naqi Alikhani as Minister of Economy; on the rise of the automobile industry in Iran; on industrial planning and the private sector in Iran; on education of the industrial and business managers in Iran; on the High Economic Council and the role of the Shah therein; balance-sheet of Alikhani’s management of Iran’s economic planning; on the promise and perils of import substitution strategy in industrial development; impact of industrial planning on the Iranian economy and society; extent of infrastructure and capital development during the Pahlavi period; myths and realities of industrial economic development in the Pahlavi period; on the Sarcheshmeh Copper Company; working with the private sector on behalf of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.

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Mosaddeqi, Taqi

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:07:25 +0000

Educational and family background; employment with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC); structure and operations of AIOC; on the development of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC); on the National Iranian Gas Company and its operations; recollections of the leading managers of NIOC; changes in the structure and operations of NIOC following the rise in the price of oil; technological and economic linkages between NIOC operations and the industrial sector of the economy; assessment of the organizational and operational procedures at NIOC; impact of Iran’s gas industry on the other economic sectors; on the negotiations with the Soviet Union over the sale of gas; assessment of Iran’s economic development policies; on the balance-sheet of the Plan and Budget Organization; on decision making in Iran’s economic sector; relations between industries and government organizations and ministries.

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Alavi-Kiya, General Hasan

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:09:25 +0000

Career during the Mosaddeq premiership and recollections of the events of 1953; on the disappearance and murder of General Mahmud Afshartus; relations between Mosaddeq and the military intelligence units; on the decision to establish SAVAK; Tudeh Party operations after the events of 1953; divisions within the Tudeh Party; on Mozaffar Baqa’i-Kermani; relations between Ali Amini and SAVAK; Tudeh Party’s infiltration of the armed forces; joining “Kuk” secret organization in the military; on the structure and history of the Iranian armed forces; methods of intelligence gathering and infiltration of the Tudeh Party; on training Iran’s intelligence officers and agents; structure and mode of organization of SAVAK; characteristics and psychology of SAVAK officers and agents; relations between SAVAK and military intelligence; on General Vali Mohammad Qarane’i; General Hosein Fardust’s role in the security establishment; on the meeting between General Teymur Bakhtiyar and President John F. Kennedy and its aftermath; on General Hasan Pakravan’s tenure as chief of SAVAK, and the events of 1963-64; SAVAK’s operations in Europe; infiltration of the Confederation of Iranian Students; on General Ne`matollah Nasiri’s management of SAVAK; Parviz Sabeti’s role in SAVAK; SAVAK’s operations among religious and ethnic groups, foreign intelligence operations, relations with other intelligence agencies; SAVAK’s relations with the Shah.

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