Bakhtar person
also: Batar, Bokhtar
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CIAintelligence service · 4Donald Dessalinesperson · 2Richard Helmsperson · 1Ramsey Clarkperson · 1Ali Akbar Taleghaniperson · 1Chiang Kai-shekperson · 1Shapur Bakhtiarperson · 1DEAintelligence service · 1
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Bakhtar host_asserted
“Well, I posted up in the pill a 1980 heroin bust called a CIA setup where Densila said Bokhtar then became more secretive about his activities and ignored warnings not to deal with the CIA. By the summer of 1979, Bokhtar was meeting CIA con…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner-Book Review-Prelude to Terror Chap 22 @ 54:19
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▶ 37:39
When Bakhtar was arrested in the heroin scheme, a pen register trap on his phone revealed calls to and from Richard Helms in Iran. Who's part of the CIA? Bakhtar's lawyer happened to be Ramsey Clark. He never called Helms as a witness to de…
▶ 38:09
was part of a CIA plot to overthrow the government. His silence got Bakhtar a light stint. So one of the ex-DIA employees who had befriended Bakhtar was named Donald Dessalia. Dessalia seemed to move with ease among both sides of the Irania…
▶ 43:58
Talatabi was not only a spokesman for the Shah, he was also one of the key plotters in an ill-fated counter coup. So Batar had raised money through heroin sales and was orchestrating basically a separate regime change. In the spring of 1980…
▶ 54:19
Well, I posted up in the pill a 1980 heroin bust called a CIA setup where Densila said Bokhtar then became more secretive about his activities and ignored warnings not to deal with the CIA. By the summer of 1979, Bokhtar was meeting CIA con…
▶ 54:48
and install his cousin, Shapur, in power. So they had adopted a Chiang Kai-shek model of revolution, right? Pay as you go using heroin. Right. I wonder where he got that idea from. Right. And so anyway, he ended up, the CIA contact who was …
▶ 55:18
I mean, you can just see how that, and it goes all the way through the drug enforcement agency. They were all corrupt. Yep. Yep. And he ends up taking the fall, so he must have, let's see, today, Bokhtar sits in Petersburg, Virginia, Federa…