SAVAK intelligence service
also: Shah's secret police, the Savak, Shavak, SAVAK, SABAC, SABAK, S-A-B-A-K
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CIA trained
SAVAK host_asserted
“the Israeli intelligence agency that acts as an appendage to the CIA. For the next 20 years, the CIA and SABAC were joined at the hip when it came to matters of the Persian Gulf security. 350 SABAC agents were shuttled each year, 350 each y…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 18:59
Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. founded
SAVAK book_quoted
“Other than changing the name and one of the offices, and I'm trying to remember which book that that's in. I'll be able to find it because it was a book that went into extraordinary detail about Norman Schwarzkopf Sr.'s role in creating the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 1:16:49
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps succeeded
SAVAK host_asserted
“I've actually said it multiple times. I've said that about Iran. If you look at Iran today, it looks like Iran under the Shah. The only difference is they changed the shingle outside from SAVAK to IRGC. But you have to have evidence. I floa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 6 @ 52:28
Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. founded
SAVAK host_asserted
“The entire Sabak apparatus that was set up by Major General Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. and was a terror organization to be unleashed on the Iranian people, 100%, with the exception of one small office and a change of name, stayed intact. So the…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 1:48:54
Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. founded
SAVAK book_quoted
“that we had been spending in the surrounding areas and that many of the radical parts of Iran that we set up, like their famous secret police, the SAVAK, and if you recall, it was Major General Norman Schwarzkopf, General Senior.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Afghanistan @ 26:47
CIA funded
SAVAK documented
“what eventually turns into BP. And it also says that American arms manufacturer and aerospace corporations flooded to the country to equip and train the Shah's armed forces and the CIA set up the notorious Shah's secret police for them, whi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 10:03
CIA funded
SAVAK book_quoted
“Special facilities where cells contained some of the most horrible torture devices ever devised. Black site prisons, again, a reoccurring pattern. The one method of torture that I saw reported were hot tables where metallic tables hooked up…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 27:23
CIA trained
SAVAK book_quoted
“with all of the acquisition of all of those methods and had a torture manual to train them how to do it. Thank you, Office of Public Safety. This attitude plus the lack of human intelligence being developed from inside of Iran, which is bul…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 28:57
Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. founded
SAVAK host_asserted
“is the one that came in and basically convinced the Shah to go along with it. And he's the one that set up the Savak, which is kind of their secret police. So Iran at the time was a puppet government of the CIA too. So anybody else have any…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 1:17:25
Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. trained
SAVAK book_quoted
“Major General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Storm and Norman Schwarzkopf's dad, known to the Shah as a trainer of his police, the Savak, a few years earlier. He had been recruited by the CIA Iranian branch chief, John Waller, at the end of June. T…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 12:00
The Campaign to Destabilize Iran based_on_material_from
SAVAK documented
“that's probably one of the only actual honest titles that I come across in this whole research, was based largely on material supplied by the 6-1 group and Iranian intelligence, SAVAK, which, guys, remember, was created and trained by Major…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 45:24
Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. trained
SAVAK host_asserted
“that's probably one of the only actual honest titles that I come across in this whole research, was based largely on material supplied by the 6-1 group and Iranian intelligence, SAVAK, which, guys, remember, was created and trained by Major…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 45:24
SAVAK front_for
Ministry of Intelligence and Security (Iran) host_asserted
“The Savak is their network. When the Mullahs took over, do you know what, you would assume that if they're these radical Islamic crazy people, they would want nothing of anything that had been set up in the previous administration under the…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 1:24:13
SAVAK carried_out_attack
Fifth of Khordad Adab host_asserted
“with a strategy that looks exactly like Argentina and Chile. Actually, all of the countries in Latin America. Savak's campaign of terror reached its highlight on June 15, 1963, the day over a thousand people were butchered by Savak forces i…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 21:40
SAVAK carried_out_attack
Iran book_quoted
“to abandon the Shah's failing regime even after martial law had been imposed in Tehran and hundreds of protesters had been gunned down by the SAVAK on what came to be known as Black Friday. Now, all of you guys that's been here this entire …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 30:06
SAVAK assassinated
Mustafa Khomeini book_quoted
“Just keep that in mind. I'm just giving you analogies here. Then, in October of 77, Khomeini's beloved son, Mustafa, was found dead in his bed. Because Islam does not permit post-mortems, the death of Mustafa remained a mystery. But many su…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 33:42
SAVAK carried_out_attack
Iran book_quoted
“was followed by an attack on the father by the Shah's information minister, the theological colleges shut down in protest inside of Iran. In January of the following year, 4,000 seminary students in Qom protested the Shah's actions. Shavak …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 34:11
SAVAK carried_out_attack
Iran book_quoted
“his associates in the Savak. And again, the Savak is a creation of the West, namely General Schwarzkopf's dad. Wilson supplied them with information and the Savak had began a worldwide program of assassinations. Huh. Are we supposed to beli…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 17:50
Hathlin Fardust headed
SAVAK host_asserted
“F-A-R-D-U-S-T, who was the former head of the Savak. The revolutionaries were deposed to believe that Fardas might be useful to them because the Shah had targeted him in 1995 as a suspected Soviet agent. After a period of detention, Fardas …”
▶ Colonel’s Corner-Book Review-Prelude to Terror Chap 22 @ 41:02
Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. founded
SAVAK host_asserted
“The areas over there, just weirdly enough, one of the rabbit holes I got down yesterday was talking about the connections of the Savak, which, of course, is the secret police in Iran, which was created by Major General Norman Schwarzkopf, S…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 58 - 'L.A INSURRECTION - LINKS TO THE PAST' - EP.426 @ 3:37
Ministry of Intelligence and Security (Iran) recruited
SAVAK host_asserted
“13th 2019 says early ministry of intelligence members admitted to recruiting sabacc personnel quote many of us knew that without a centralized intelligence system the revolution would collapse under external threats so we reached out to for…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 32:24
Ayatollah Khomeini reassigned
SAVAK host_asserted
“The transition of Savak was a calculated decision at the highest levels of the Mullah regime, including Khomeini himself, who ensured that key intelligence officers were not only spared, but reassigned to critical positions in the Intellige…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 35:13
SAVAMA front_for
SAVAK book_quoted
“According to a report in 1994 on the study of torture in Iran, the new regime's intelligence apparatus, often referred to as SAVAMA, S-A-V-A-M-A, was established as a direct replacement for SAVAK inside of the Mullah regime. And it said it …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 35:42
SAVAMA member_of
SAVAK book_quoted
“mostly staffed by old Sabak officials. It was engaged in both external espionage and internal torture. While some people had questioned it, there were enough people that came forward that was part of this that actually said that's exactly w…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 36:10
Manzoor Rafizadeh headed
SAVAK book_quoted
“And I'm going to spell that R-A-F-I-Z-A-D-E-A-D-E-H. Sorry, the head of SAVAK, the CIA unit, which was the Shah's secret police. Oh, and by the way, by this time, Mossad was also training SAVAK. Just saying. The Shah's secret police that wa…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 43:27
CIA trained
SAVAK book_quoted
“by Major General Schwarzkopf, Arnold's dad. The people that ran it were hand-selected by the CIA. So this is the CIA being involved in a crisis in Tehran. For Helms and Shackley, a chance to influence the Ayatollah Khomeini had come many ye…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 30:35
Nozar Razmara member_of
SAVAK documented
“spell his name, N-O-V-Z-A-R. His last name is R-A-Z-M-A-R-A. He worked for the SAVAK, which is their special police. And he introduced him to Menaker Hashimi, H-A-S-H-E-M-I, who also was a SAVAK general who had been visiting London.…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 47:25
Menaker Hashimi member_of
SAVAK documented
“spell his name, N-O-V-Z-A-R. His last name is R-A-Z-M-A-R-A. He worked for the SAVAK, which is their special police. And he introduced him to Menaker Hashimi, H-A-S-H-E-M-I, who also was a SAVAK general who had been visiting London.…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 47:25
Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. founded
SAVAK host_asserted
“And they start going out to all of the villages and teaching the cops out to police. And they also form a national police force like we did in Iran, the Savak. Remember the stories that we talked about when we did Iran and the fact that it …”
▶ Operation Gladio Vietnam Part 3 @ 37:25
Edwin Wilson spied_on
SAVAK book_quoted
“CIA agents are trying to tell us that Iran is sending Iranians that the CIA is basically in charge of to a terrorist training school ran by the Russians. Hello. That doesn't make any sense at all. Okay. Wilson traveled to Tehran routinely t…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 17:19
Kurt Student founded
SAVAK book_quoted
“his associates in the Savak. And again, the Savak is a creation of the West, namely General Schwarzkopf's dad. Wilson supplied them with information and the Savak had began a worldwide program of assassinations. Huh. Are we supposed to beli…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 17:50
Edwin Wilson supplied_arms_to
SAVAK book_quoted
“his associates in the Savak. And again, the Savak is a creation of the West, namely General Schwarzkopf's dad. Wilson supplied them with information and the Savak had began a worldwide program of assassinations. Huh. Are we supposed to beli…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 17:50
CIA founded
SAVAK book_quoted
“Kermit Roosevelt, the Mossadegh coup master, and remember that he's Teddy Roosevelt's grandson. After he left the CIA, he went to be a salesman for none other than Northrop Drummond. He admitted in his memoirs that Savak was 100% created by…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 18:27
Edwin Wilson trained
SAVAK book_quoted
“He taught the Savak how to intercept opposition radio communications and how to use surveillance equipment. As the trust built between Wilson and the Savak, he flew back and forth to the U.S. to report on his activities to Shackley and Klei…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6 @ 29:02
CIA supplied_arms_to
SAVAK book_quoted
“that that's exactly what the CIA and Wilson had been doing for the Savak in Iran, that they were running basically a covert intelligence operation feeding intelligence to Iran for decades. Wilson suggested that T.P. Quintero, whom Somoza ha…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 51:24
Mossad founded
SAVAK book_quoted
“Kermit Roosevelt, the Mossadegh coup master, and remember that he's Teddy Roosevelt's grandson. After he left the CIA, he went to be a salesman for none other than Northrop Drummond. He admitted in his memoirs that Savak was 100% created by…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 18:27
CIA funded
SAVAK documented
“large of a contingent, was dwarfed by the 10,000 U.S. military people in Iran. And why would they need that many people? Because they were running the SAVAK, the secret, not secret, the National Police Force slash intelligence slash torture…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 37:23
Reza Pahlavi founded
SAVAK book_quoted
“The country's fledging democracy was dismantled. The members of the oppositional parties and press were rounded up and driven underground. With the CIA's strong encouragement, the Shah unleashed his secret police organization, First the Sec…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 41:12
Richard Helms member_of
SAVAK host_asserted
“That Richard Helms, the director of the Central Intelligence from 1966 to 73, an ambassador to Iran in 73 to 77, who were setting up the SABAC and all of the rest of the integral pieces of Iran during the Shah's tenure. Helms also was intim…”
▶ The Shadow State 36 Secret Societies 20; The Groton School @ 1:21:40
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani headed
SAVAK documented
“In mid-1984, Shackley flew to Los Angeles to see a potentially valuable source, Moniker Hashemi, it's H-A-S-H-E-M-I, who was a brigadier general in Iran in the days of the Shah and headed the counter-espionage section of the brutal Savak. H…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 8:33
Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. founded
SAVAK host_asserted
“So basically, they have 200,000 armed forces, and they have about 50,000 in their national police force. And keep in mind that their national police force was set up by Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. while he was over in Iran. It was called the SAV…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 19:16
Edwin Wilson spied_on
SAVAK book_quoted
“because these people turn on you on a dime. He had already set up fronts like the World Marine Inc. and Maryland Maritime and Consultants International. Under Klein's direction, he would become a quote-unquote advisor to the Savak and act a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 16:38
CIA funded
SAVAK host_asserted
“Four, the director of Amnesty International declared that no country had a worse human rights record than Iran under the Shah. The CIA responded by increasing its support for the Savak. A small group of elite families close to the Shah assu…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 22:07
SAVAK trained
Ministry of Intelligence and Security (Iran) host_asserted
“continued to exist and began to refine the brutal interrogation and torture methods that had been taught by the CIA and Mossad to the Savak. Now, the Savak is in there training their new MOIS, which is the intelligence, which basically morp…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 33:51
SAVAK carried_out_attack
Mohammad Raja Sadati host_asserted
“the former Sabak officers of currently operating in 1993 inside the Iranian government. One of the earliest and most telling instances of the continuity was the arrest of Mohammad Raja Sadati, a prominent member of the People's Mujahideen O…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 36:42
SAVAK carried_out_attack
People's Mujahideen Organization of Iran host_asserted
“This operation, executed by former SAVAK operatives now operating under the Mullah regime, demonstrate how quickly the new regime had repurposed the SAVAK and continued to use it. Historical records show SAVAK's counterintelligence officers…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 37:12
Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. trained
SAVAK guest_asserted
“I think we're talking on different timelines. Roosevelt was successful for the actual coup that was successful. And yes, Major General Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. was playing a part in the entire thing because he set up and trained the Savak, wh…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 1:29:50
Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. founded
SAVAK host_asserted
“their intel and counterintelligence operations against the Soviets. Now, keep in mind, we had couped the Iran and got rid of Mosaddegh and installed the Shah back, right? So he's going in there. He would have served there with Schwarzkopf's…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program @ 12:00
CIA ran
SAVAK host_asserted
“Sayyid Ramadan. After the meeting, two of the security men drove Dawad around the city for about two hours, then delivered him to a safe house. The lavish gas compound just outside of Tehran was the Safak headquarters, which was ran by the …”
▶ Colonel’s Corner-Book Review-Prelude to Terror Chap 22 @ 51:49
Mossad trained
SAVAK host_asserted
“change of government. Because one of the most telling things is the SAVAK, the Major General Norman Schwarzkopf created terrorist organization unleashed on the citizens of Iran and trained by MI6, CIA and Mossad during those 20 years was le…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 44:43
SAVAK front_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“They stayed in contact with this network. So I'm here to argue that Savak, the Revolutionary Guard, all of them are the gladio elements inside of Iran. And they have operated continuously through the entire thing. And when somebody needs an…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 38:38
Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. trained
SAVAK guest_asserted
“General Norman Schwarzkopf Sr., Desert Storm Guy's dad. Yeah. He created the SABOC. He trained the SABOC under the Office of Public Safety.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 36:52
USAID trained
SAVAK host_asserted
“where they learn the finer arts of interrogation and torture. What's that sound like? It sounds exactly like the School of Americas that was set up for Operation Condor. The top Savak brass were trained through the USAID Office of Public Sa…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 19:24
Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. founded
SAVAK host_asserted
“If you understand the history of Iran, and I just talked about this today, if you guys missed my 4 o'clock today, please go listen to it, because it is the history of Iran from Operation Ajax, where we overthrew Mossadegh, the creation of t…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 1:21:23
CIA founded
SAVAK host_asserted
“If you understand the history of Iran, and I just talked about this today, if you guys missed my 4 o'clock today, please go listen to it, because it is the history of Iran from Operation Ajax, where we overthrew Mossadegh, the creation of t…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 1:21:23
Qasem Soleimani headed
SAVAK host_asserted
“Soleimani was basically in charge of the modern-day version of the Savak, which is their intelligence and their secret police force that controls all aspects of internal Iranian opposition, and taking him out as the head of their secret int…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Deep Dive into @AAnon55_ video post 1030 ET @ 1:20:42
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps member_of
SAVAK host_asserted
“You understand that you have to take these terror funding, narcotic funding countries out and put them back on the open market. You cannot do that with the IRGC in place because they're terrorists. They're the old Savak and they're going to…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 1:22:01
Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. founded
SAVAK host_asserted
“Now, the military assistance group is like those mags that started the Phoenix program in Vietnam, just FYI. This is at the same time that we're going to find Major General Norman Schwarzkopf, our Schwarzkopf from Desert Storm's dad, over i…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6 @ 25:40
SAVAK ordered_assassination_of
Mohammad Mosaddegh book_quoted
“The Sabah began providing him with a list of names of anti-Shah activists that needed to be eliminated because this is a consistent theme of all of these countries. It isn't really the country that does it. They do it in cooperation with th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 21:13
Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. founded
SAVAK host_asserted
“by leaders and intelligence directors from five countries, France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, and Iran. And who signed for Iran? The director of the Sabacc. And who was that? That guy, Sabacc, remember, was created by Major General Schwa…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right -Kyle Burke @ 1:31:12
CIA funded
SAVAK host_asserted
“which is what we thought the entire time. I just love the fact that this book gives us credible evidence that that's the case. Although Ed Wilson was never aware of it, his many deals on behalf of SAVAK, which is the intelligence national p…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18 @ 36:11
Friedrich Paulus founded
SAVAK host_asserted
“where they went, what they did. Several other major changes occurred during this time. And on the assumption that someday the communists would be defeated, the Michigan State University in 1957 had reduced the Civil Guard in strength and co…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program @ 35:12
Mossad trained
SAVAK host_asserted
“Wasn't it Mossad? It was. Yes, I was going to say it's Mossad that helped do the training. So Mossad went in and trained and equipped the SAVAK to continue operations. So what you don't know behind the scenes, as Alpha pointed out, there is…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 1:25:10
CIA trained
SAVAK host_asserted
“change of government. Because one of the most telling things is the SAVAK, the Major General Norman Schwarzkopf created terrorist organization unleashed on the citizens of Iran and trained by MI6, CIA and Mossad during those 20 years was le…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 44:43
Mossad trained
SAVAK host_asserted
“So anybody that tells you that there's an Iranian in the United States doing something, this is a derivative directly from the CIA, MI6, and Mossad. Don't be taken in by the fact that they're calling them Iranian. Because there is little to…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 38:08
Manucher Ghorbanifar member_of
SAVAK host_asserted
“So this is November 1984. Shackley met Hashimi at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hamburg. Hashimi introduced him to Gorbanifar. He also was a SAVAK agent and an arms dealer. Gorbanifar opened the three-day negotiation with Shackley by suggesting…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 48:21
Mossad trained
SAVAK host_asserted
“And I'm going to spell that R-A-F-I-Z-A-D-E-A-D-E-H. Sorry, the head of SAVAK, the CIA unit, which was the Shah's secret police. Oh, and by the way, by this time, Mossad was also training SAVAK. Just saying. The Shah's secret police that wa…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 43:27
Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. trained
SAVAK host_asserted
“So they have the same, and that's the SABAC, by the way. And we know that Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. set up the SABAC national police training and basically turned them into terrorists. So the fact that it's being administered in different loca…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 32:28
Nugan Hand Bank financed_via
SAVAK book_quoted
“which is what we thought the entire time. I just love the fact that this book gives us credible evidence that that's the case. Although Ed Wilson was never aware of it, his many deals on behalf of SAVAK, which is the intelligence national p…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18 @ 36:11
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps succeeded
SAVAK caller_asserted
“all of the different functions of the SAVAK. Basically what they did was take like the top three officials, executed them and left the body fully functioning and just placed their new IRGC leadership and to continue doing the nefarious blac…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 1:27:13
SAVAK succeeded
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps host_asserted
“that happening, I didn't know that he created the New Jersey State Police either, and kind of all made sense afterwards, especially if you've ever been to New Jersey, but no, just kidding, but yeah, so a lot of the leadership of the SAVAK w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 1:17:18
Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. founded
SAVAK guest_asserted
“General Norman Schwarzkopf Sr., Desert Storm Guy's dad. Yeah. He created the SABOC. He trained the SABOC under the Office of Public Safety.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 36:52
Reza Pahlavi headed
SAVAK guest_asserted
“does not serve the people of Iran that have been there their entire lives and, frankly, been fed propaganda by the regime or that are old enough that they remember how bad Fatavi's father was. And the Savak was. And the Savak, yes, exactly.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 1:32:55
SAVAK front_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“as the Shah. A 1993 UK parliamentary report accused the regime and Iran of orchestrating assassinations across Europe and the US and the Philippines, Pakistan, India, and Turkey. These operations mirrored the SAVAK. And I would argue they'r…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 37:41
Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. founded
SAVAK host_asserted
“Remember, again, weapon traffic trafficked through Israel missiles into Iran. That was just one of many of the examples there. And you guys know about, it was a U.S. retired general officer that went over there, Norman Schwarzkopf Sr., that…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 1:05:25
Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. founded
SAVAK host_asserted
“Our Norman Schwarzkopf of Desert Storm's dad was the creator. That's why Norman Schwarzkopf, when he talks about growing up and spending time in Iran, his dad was over there creating their national police, which were butchers. And so all of…”
▶ The Shadow State 19 Secret Societies 3; The Bush Dynasty @ 1:14:49
SAVAK succeeded
Imperial Guard host_asserted
“There was no difference in the Savak and then in its replacement, the Iranian Republican Guard Corps. They're all the same. And every single time, not a democracy, a dictatorship, a fascist dictatorship that continued to torture and murder …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Deep Dive into @AAnon55_ video post 1030 ET @ 53:31
SAVAK carried_out_attack
Robert F. Kennedy book_quoted
“We're just going to call 911 assassin hotline and deploy whoever we have. It says SABAC trained operatives also played a key role in establishing the transnational assassination program. Man, we have a lot of those under Operation Gladio, w…”
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F-A-R-D-U-S-T, who was the former head of the Savak. The revolutionaries were deposed to believe that Fardas might be useful to them because the Shah had targeted him in 1995 as a suspected Soviet agent. After a period of detention, Fardas …
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Sayyid Ramadan. After the meeting, two of the security men drove Dawad around the city for about two hours, then delivered him to a safe house. The lavish gas compound just outside of Tehran was the Safak headquarters, which was ran by the …
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and his relationship with Adem and Shackley to be suspicious. Within a few months of the new Islamic government, assumptions of power in Iran, cross-border attacks and attempts to export religious quote-unquote warriors into Iraq began. The…
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back when we assassinated Patrice Lumumba. And on another section of USAID was the Office of Public Safety. And I've talked often about the Office of Public Safety. Ironically, the Office of Public Safety taught national police forces aroun…
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that we had been spending in the surrounding areas and that many of the radical parts of Iran that we set up, like their famous secret police, the SAVAK, and if you recall, it was Major General Norman Schwarzkopf, General Senior.…
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our Desert Storm General Schwarzkopf's dad that had helped set up the SAVAK for Iran because he had been stationed there. He knew everything about Iran, very familiar with it. And so he had been hired by the U.S. government when we were sup…
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is the one that came in and basically convinced the Shah to go along with it. And he's the one that set up the Savak, which is kind of their secret police. So Iran at the time was a puppet government of the CIA too. So anybody else have any…
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The areas over there, just weirdly enough, one of the rabbit holes I got down yesterday was talking about the connections of the Savak, which, of course, is the secret police in Iran, which was created by Major General Norman Schwarzkopf, S…
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If you understand the history of Iran, and I just talked about this today, if you guys missed my 4 o'clock today, please go listen to it, because it is the history of Iran from Operation Ajax, where we overthrew Mossadegh, the creation of t…
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That's yesterday. Yes. Yeah. So if you look at the SABAC's creation, a couple of years after the Shah is put back in power by the CIA and MI6 and Mossad, you have the iteration of the creation of the SABAC by all of these same intelligence …
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The Savak is their network. When the Mullahs took over, do you know what, you would assume that if they're these radical Islamic crazy people, they would want nothing of anything that had been set up in the previous administration under the…
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I tell people about this all the time, Colonel. They got rid of one person. That's it. And then they rebranded it to MOIS, the M-O-I-S or however you say it. All they did was they just rebranded. Yes. And that tells you everything. And do y…
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Wasn't it Mossad? It was. Yes, I was going to say it's Mossad that helped do the training. So Mossad went in and trained and equipped the SAVAK to continue operations. So what you don't know behind the scenes, as Alpha pointed out, there is…
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However, we're not streaming to the backup channel. So I'll have to do the replay on those and kind of figure out later why that's not working. But the two primary channels were there, Colonel. So I'm pretty happy about that. So do us a sol…
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And the advice of modernization theorists like Walt Ristow, who worked in the State Department, suggests that he was very aware of what the Shah was doing and that the U.S.'s role in creation of the SAVAK, which we're going to get to in a s…
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That is not something that has been widely known by anybody. And it's going to come into play throughout this entire story. Okay, so all of that's very, very important. Let me move over to an article that is called Oligarchy, the CIA's Fran…
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Wherever the four horsemen, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Texaco, BP Amoco, and Royal Dutch Shell Gallop, the CIA is close behind. I would argue they're in front. Iran was no exception. By 1957, the company, as intelligence insiders know the CIA, cr…
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Kermit Roosevelt, the Mossadegh coup master, and remember that he's Teddy Roosevelt's grandson. After he left the CIA, he went to be a salesman for none other than Northrop Drummond. He admitted in his memoirs that Savak was 100% created by…
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the Israeli intelligence agency that acts as an appendage to the CIA. For the next 20 years, the CIA and SABAC were joined at the hip when it came to matters of the Persian Gulf security. 350 SABAC agents were shuttled each year, 350 each y…
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where they learn the finer arts of interrogation and torture. What's that sound like? It sounds exactly like the School of Americas that was set up for Operation Condor. The top Savak brass were trained through the USAID Office of Public Sa…
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In 1963, when JFK was assassinated, Savak chief Hassan Akraban, P-A-K-R-A-B-A-N, joined the Shah in Tehran to celebrate Kennedy's assassination. The CIA, MI6, and Mossad supported 30 paramilitary groups in Iran and provided support to Shah …
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Popular anger towards Big Oil, the Shah, in his new police state resulted in mass protests. The Shah dealt with the demonstrations with brutality, with a wink and a nod from Langley. From 1957 to 79, Iran housed 125,000 political prisoners.…
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with a strategy that looks exactly like Argentina and Chile. Actually, all of the countries in Latin America. Savak's campaign of terror reached its highlight on June 15, 1963, the day over a thousand people were butchered by Savak forces i…
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Four, the director of Amnesty International declared that no country had a worse human rights record than Iran under the Shah. The CIA responded by increasing its support for the Savak. A small group of elite families close to the Shah assu…
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This is where it gets very interesting. So why does all of this matter? Well, let's move on to an article written by Mohammad Sadat Kansari. The fall of the Shah in 1979 was widely seen as the end to the Savak. Did it really end? Iran's dre…
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This notorious organization, the clerical dictatorship, instead absorbed all of it and turned it into their own intelligence services. The official Iranian source, along with historical investigations, revealed that the Savak's anti-espiona…
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This report examines how Iran's ruling clerics leveraged Savak operatives to create its own surveillance state that continued to target dissidents at home and abroad. Savak's absorption into the clerical dictatorship. There was a segment th…
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that a filmmaker said, quote, Savak had 11 divisions. Only one was dismantled after the revolution. The rest remained intact and pledged allegiance to Imam Khomeini before the fall of the Shah. This claim corroborates multiple sources sugge…
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In an interview published by Donya Eskasad on March 6, 2023, a former high-ranking Savak counterintelligence officer revealed, quote, the revolutionaries approached us and asked for our expertise. They wanted to know how to maintain nationa…
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once focused on Soviet spies, was restructured to handle domestic enemies under the new order, unquote. He also went on to say that the current intelligence was built on the backbone of the Shah's brutal Savak. Former high-ranking Savak off…
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13th 2019 says early ministry of intelligence members admitted to recruiting sabacc personnel quote many of us knew that without a centralized intelligence system the revolution would collapse under external threats so we reached out to for…
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said, quote, we initially functioned as multiple competing intelligence units. It was only after 1984 that the intelligence agency and the SAVAK, all assets merged. And what's that date important? 1984. Not that it's not weird that 1984, bu…
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continued to exist and began to refine the brutal interrogation and torture methods that had been taught by the CIA and Mossad to the Savak. Now, the Savak is in there training their new MOIS, which is the intelligence, which basically morp…
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The transition of Savak was a calculated decision at the highest levels of the Mullah regime, including Khomeini himself, who ensured that key intelligence officers were not only spared, but reassigned to critical positions in the Intellige…
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According to a report in 1994 on the study of torture in Iran, the new regime's intelligence apparatus, often referred to as SAVAMA, S-A-V-A-M-A, was established as a direct replacement for SAVAK inside of the Mullah regime. And it said it …
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mostly staffed by old Sabak officials. It was engaged in both external espionage and internal torture. While some people had questioned it, there were enough people that came forward that was part of this that actually said that's exactly w…
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the former Sabak officers of currently operating in 1993 inside the Iranian government. One of the earliest and most telling instances of the continuity was the arrest of Mohammad Raja Sadati, a prominent member of the People's Mujahideen O…
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This operation, executed by former SAVAK operatives now operating under the Mullah regime, demonstrate how quickly the new regime had repurposed the SAVAK and continued to use it. Historical records show SAVAK's counterintelligence officers…
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their desires in a particular area okay uh yeah thank you for for today's uh space but i rest my case because i'm going to dig into this a bit deeper right and i hope you do that's the whole purpose of this but i do want to make clear it is…
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under the guise of USAID, Office of Public Safety. What a weird name. General Norman Schwarzkopf Sr., Desert Storm Guy's dad. Yeah. He created the SABOC. He trained the SABOC under the Office of Public Safety. The SABOC is a terrorist organ…
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kidnapped, tortured, and disappeared people that disagreed with the Shah. You will find the Office of Public Safety in like 50 or 60 different countries around the world. And every one of them was done after the CIA installs a dictator ther…
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Yes. That is our story today. And I'm really glad we got through this because I think it's a story that just had to be told. And I just want to reemphasize again, because this is critically important. If I could, I'd stand up and stop my fe…
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Now, the military assistance group is like those mags that started the Phoenix program in Vietnam, just FYI. This is at the same time that we're going to find Major General Norman Schwarzkopf, our Schwarzkopf from Desert Storm's dad, over i…
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While Wilson was working on his spy project, he was introduced through von Marbog and Secord to General Nematola Nasari, the head of the SAVAK, the Shah's murderous and brutal secret police, who asked Wilson if he could provide more up-to-d…
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When Savak found out that Wilson was a friend of these people, von Marburg and Secord, they were all over me to help them furnish material for torture. And keep in mind, these guys are experts at this because they were all in Vietnam doing …
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The Savak took Wilson on raids of conservative Muslim mosques and safe houses. He saw a purview of what the U.S. intelligence would be facing over the next century. On one occasion, Wilson saw nine people machine gunned to death by the Sava…
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Clines and Shackley, Von Marbog, and Secord agreed to help the secret police because Wilson wanted to keep Savak happy. They made it easy for him to do business in Iran. He assisted the Savak, the Shah's torturers, from 1974 to 1977. Well, …
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He taught the Savak how to intercept opposition radio communications and how to use surveillance equipment. As the trust built between Wilson and the Savak, he flew back and forth to the U.S. to report on his activities to Shackley and Klei…
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that that's exactly what the CIA and Wilson had been doing for the Savak in Iran, that they were running basically a covert intelligence operation feeding intelligence to Iran for decades. Wilson suggested that T.P. Quintero, whom Somoza ha…
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which is what we thought the entire time. I just love the fact that this book gives us credible evidence that that's the case. Although Ed Wilson was never aware of it, his many deals on behalf of SAVAK, which is the intelligence national p…
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his associates in the Savak. And again, the Savak is a creation of the West, namely General Schwarzkopf's dad. Wilson supplied them with information and the Savak had began a worldwide program of assassinations. Huh. Are we supposed to beli…
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No, not as long as the Shah was there. So Wilson goes on and says, but I didn't want to cross Shackley's Accord or Von Marbog. So Wilson said that he was supplying names of the people that the Savak was sending to those schools because they…
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by leaders and intelligence directors from five countries, France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, and Iran. And who signed for Iran? The director of the Sabacc. And who was that? That guy, Sabacc, remember, was created by Major General Schwa…
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And they start going out to all of the villages and teaching the cops out to police. And they also form a national police force like we did in Iran, the Savak. Remember the stories that we talked about when we did Iran and the fact that it …
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their intel and counterintelligence operations against the Soviets. Now, keep in mind, we had couped the Iran and got rid of Mosaddegh and installed the Shah back, right? So he's going in there. He would have served there with Schwarzkopf's…
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where they went, what they did. Several other major changes occurred during this time. And on the assumption that someday the communists would be defeated, the Michigan State University in 1957 had reduced the Civil Guard in strength and co…
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The SABAC, that was basically the terror organization, as we saw the DINA in Chile and everything else. He was installed by the CIA after overthrowing Mosaddegh. So the overthrow of the Shah by the Ayatollah, who, by the way, just mysteriou…
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The entire Sabak apparatus that was set up by Major General Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. and was a terror organization to be unleashed on the Iranian people, 100%, with the exception of one small office and a change of name, stayed intact. So the…
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does not serve the people of Iran that have been there their entire lives and, frankly, been fed propaganda by the regime or that are old enough that they remember how bad Fatavi's father was. And the Savak was. And the Savak, yes, exactly.…
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There was no difference in the Savak and then in its replacement, the Iranian Republican Guard Corps. They're all the same. And every single time, not a democracy, a dictatorship, a fascist dictatorship that continued to torture and murder …
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Soleimani was basically in charge of the modern-day version of the Savak, which is their intelligence and their secret police force that controls all aspects of internal Iranian opposition, and taking him out as the head of their secret int…
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So they have the same, and that's the SABAC, by the way. And we know that Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. set up the SABAC national police training and basically turned them into terrorists. So the fact that it's being administered in different loca…
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Happy Sunday, war hamster. So the key to disproving that it was a random act came with the installation of the Mullahs in the aftermath of the revolution. The apparatuses that had been set up by the CIA, MI6, and Mossad, and we tracked the …
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which was their intelligence and it's their CIA. It was portrayed as also being part of a national police force. That apparatus was set up, you've heard me say it many times, by Major General Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. The training initially wa…
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Yes, you heard me correctly. The Israeli intelligence counterpart to the CIA was training the Shah's national police and intelligence apparatus. That organization, the SAVAK, with the exception that had like several different divisions in i…
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That to me is a clear indication that it was the 1953 overthrow of Mossadegh into the Shah. The Shah had become so unpopular, not unlike Batista in Cuba, that there needed to be another regime change. In comes the Mullahs. And they kept the…
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had worked for Iranian intelligence under the Shah, which was set up by the CIA under Savak. Huh. According to Morrow, the Kennedys had become enemies of the Shah, who had been installed in power by the CIA coup when, as a senator,…
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However, if Robert Kennedy won, the Shah would be totally isolated from any further U.S. aid, military support, and would be censored worldwide. According to Morrow's hypothesis, the Shah ordered Colonel Manzur Rafzadeh, the head of the SAV…
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to abandon the Shah's failing regime even after martial law had been imposed in Tehran and hundreds of protesters had been gunned down by the SAVAK on what came to be known as Black Friday. Now, all of you guys that's been here this entire …
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by Major General Schwarzkopf, Arnold's dad. The people that ran it were hand-selected by the CIA. So this is the CIA being involved in a crisis in Tehran. For Helms and Shackley, a chance to influence the Ayatollah Khomeini had come many ye…
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brought him out of Iran, placed him in Iraq after the Savak. Hold on. I'll bring you back up, cousinette. So that's very, very interesting. And the fact that he was originally exiled to Turkey is very, very important because I sent you the …
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Just keep that in mind. I'm just giving you analogies here. Then, in October of 77, Khomeini's beloved son, Mustafa, was found dead in his bed. Because Islam does not permit post-mortems, the death of Mustafa remained a mystery. But many su…
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was followed by an attack on the father by the Shah's information minister, the theological colleges shut down in protest inside of Iran. In January of the following year, 4,000 seminary students in Qom protested the Shah's actions. Shavak …
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But the loss of their 20-year relationship with Iran, their only major trading partner in the region, Israelis felt that they had to find a way to get along with the new regime. A friendly relationship with Iran was a cornerstone of their e…
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is looking for U.S. weapons, and they know this colonel is like the underground conduit for those weapons. The story of the Hashmini brothers, Cyrus and Jasmid, did not begin with their claims concerning the October surprise. The Shah and t…
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spell his name, N-O-V-Z-A-R. His last name is R-A-Z-M-A-R-A. He worked for the SAVAK, which is their special police. And he introduced him to Menaker Hashimi, H-A-S-H-E-M-I, who also was a SAVAK general who had been visiting London.…
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where he lived in exile now that the Shah wasn't there. Hashimi quickly got the impression that Shackley had a very close connection to Bush and was advising the government on Iran. Hashimi told Shackley that while he had a few contacts in …
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Around the world, Dan Mederoni, the former chief of police at Richmond, Indiana, those people went around, General Schwarzkopf's dad, General Schwarzkopf, creating and training and equipping national police forces all over the world, the Sa…
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I think we're talking on different timelines. Roosevelt was successful for the actual coup that was successful. And yes, Major General Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. was playing a part in the entire thing because he set up and trained the Savak, wh…
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Remember, again, weapon traffic trafficked through Israel missiles into Iran. That was just one of many of the examples there. And you guys know about, it was a U.S. retired general officer that went over there, Norman Schwarzkopf Sr., that…
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So basically, they have 200,000 armed forces, and they have about 50,000 in their national police force. And keep in mind that their national police force was set up by Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. while he was over in Iran. It was called the SAV…
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large of a contingent, was dwarfed by the 10,000 U.S. military people in Iran. And why would they need that many people? Because they were running the SAVAK, the secret, not secret, the National Police Force slash intelligence slash torture…
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for normal Iranians under the Savak, under the Shah. All of those pictures that you see about how great it was in Tehran, it was not great for normal Iranians. It was great for people who were in the upper echelon that basically went along …
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why some of these large counts that follow me never comment on any of our posts or repost any of it or anything like that, because evidently they're charging money to do that. So that solved the mystery for us. Illini, go ahead. Hey, Colone…
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There was a lot of the senior leadership of the Savak taken out when the Shah was overthrown. A lot of that was done primarily from a looks perspective. They were sent to the prisons they'd been sending everybody else to and executed the le…
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Other than changing the name and one of the offices, and I'm trying to remember which book that that's in. I'll be able to find it because it was a book that went into extraordinary detail about Norman Schwarzkopf Sr.'s role in creating the…
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that happening, I didn't know that he created the New Jersey State Police either, and kind of all made sense afterwards, especially if you've ever been to New Jersey, but no, just kidding, but yeah, so a lot of the leadership of the SAVAK w…
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who wished nothing better than to return to Tehran. Reagan's behavior was extremely schizoid, is his name, is his word. In the opinion of Iranian Major Rafi Zadeh, a former intelligence officer who had worked with the CIA until 1983, meanin…
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source of information, you do have to trace it down to primary sources. But the one thing that Susan Kokinda and Barbara Boyd haven't really come out with yet, and haven't flipped their cards on the table yet, where I think there needs to b…
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And I know that Colonel, I think there was a book that talked about that transition with Savak to the IRGC in the eighties. And I'm always, you know. Yeah. Basically, and I'm not sure we've been through so many books. I'm not sure exactly. …
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all of the different functions of the SAVAK. Basically what they did was take like the top three officials, executed them and left the body fully functioning and just placed their new IRGC leadership and to continue doing the nefarious blac…
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You understand that you have to take these terror funding, narcotic funding countries out and put them back on the open market. You cannot do that with the IRGC in place because they're terrorists. They're the old Savak and they're going to…
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Major General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Storm and Norman Schwarzkopf's dad, known to the Shah as a trainer of his police, the Savak, a few years earlier. He had been recruited by the CIA Iranian branch chief, John Waller, at the end of June. T…
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The country's fledging democracy was dismantled. The members of the oppositional parties and press were rounded up and driven underground. With the CIA's strong encouragement, the Shah unleashed his secret police organization, First the Sec…
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change of government. Because one of the most telling things is the SAVAK, the Major General Norman Schwarzkopf created terrorist organization unleashed on the citizens of Iran and trained by MI6, CIA and Mossad during those 20 years was le…
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hectares of opium, which was about 50% bigger than Turkey. And who was in control of Iran back then? Oh, the Sabak that the CIA set up and the Shah that we installed. Yeah, same people. In the publication, The New Republic noted that only a…
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I've actually said it multiple times. I've said that about Iran. If you look at Iran today, it looks like Iran under the Shah. The only difference is they changed the shingle outside from SAVAK to IRGC. But you have to have evidence. I floa…
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what eventually turns into BP. And it also says that American arms manufacturer and aerospace corporations flooded to the country to equip and train the Shah's armed forces and the CIA set up the notorious Shah's secret police for them, whi…
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because these people turn on you on a dime. He had already set up fronts like the World Marine Inc. and Maryland Maritime and Consultants International. Under Klein's direction, he would become a quote-unquote advisor to the Savak and act a…
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It was actually the Savak who controlled the Shah. The Shah was basically a figurehead. Whoever controlled the Savak controlled Iran, not unlike the IRGC functions today, which is really weird because in our research, apparently the IRGC an…
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Wilson's ties to Secord, von Marbog, Klein's, and Shackley, they began pressing Wilson to increase the flow of arms and equipment to Iran. Wilson was only too happy to comply with all of his front companies. Some of the equipment the Savak …
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By using such equipment, the Savak was able to home in on clandestine radio transmitters and broadcast and anti-Shah messages and subsequently not only close them down, but arrest the people doing them because you're not allowed to be a dis…
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The Sabah began providing him with a list of names of anti-Shah activists that needed to be eliminated because this is a consistent theme of all of these countries. It isn't really the country that does it. They do it in cooperation with th…
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to play a pivotal part in the Shah's purchase of American technology. Hakim had major contacts with Iranian military and the Savak and could further arm cells and obtain lucrative contracts. Shortly after taking the job, he was introduced b…
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That last month, three top managers for Rockwell IBEX projects were murdered. Three top managers. William Cottrell, Donald Smith, and Robert Crongard.…
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So all of the business dealings that were transpiring and the political problems within the country goes unnoticed. Instead of attempting to win the hearts and minds of people, they ignore them, the discontent brews, and then you get some t…
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This is what a CIA analyst reported as torture. Not waterboarding, real torture. If Savak wanted to torture someone who was anti-Shaw or who was ultimately detrimental to their interest, well, fine, go ahead and let them do it. That was the…
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with all of the acquisition of all of those methods and had a torture manual to train them how to do it. Thank you, Office of Public Safety. This attitude plus the lack of human intelligence being developed from inside of Iran, which is bul…
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that he phone up his buddy, Richard Secord, Mr. Retired Air Force, CIA guy, and kick in the enterprise. One last guy, Albert Hakim. He was an Iranian-born business partner of Richard Secord from the Savak Tehran days. He managed a private s…
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supplying electronic equipment, as I mentioned earlier, that IBEX project. They all used the bribe system to get all of this stuff done. And they worked almost exclusively in Iran with the terrorist that manned the Savak secret police.…
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After the fall of Vietnam and the U.S. extraction from Laos in 1975, U.S. policy attention shifted to Iran and the Middle East. The same players involved in Laos and later in Vietnam, Operation Phoenix, showed up in Tehran. These individual…
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The work of the 6-1 was kept separate, supposedly. Again, these authors are just so naive. None of this shit separate from the ISC. And, for example, November 1978, conflict studies issued, authored by Robert Moss, entitled The Campaign to …
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that's probably one of the only actual honest titles that I come across in this whole research, was based largely on material supplied by the 6-1 group and Iranian intelligence, SAVAK, which, guys, remember, was created and trained by Major…
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In mid-1984, Shackley flew to Los Angeles to see a potentially valuable source, Moniker Hashemi, it's H-A-S-H-E-M-I, who was a brigadier general in Iran in the days of the Shah and headed the counter-espionage section of the brutal Savak. H…
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tens of thousands of people are dead as a result of the war between Iraq and Iran all through the 80s, like almost the entire decade. And that was instigated and encouraged by NATO. And you have during that same time, Iran, we created, and …
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Our Norman Schwarzkopf of Desert Storm's dad was the creator. That's why Norman Schwarzkopf, when he talks about growing up and spending time in Iran, his dad was over there creating their national police, which were butchers. And so all of…
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That Richard Helms, the director of the Central Intelligence from 1966 to 73, an ambassador to Iran in 73 to 77, who were setting up the SABAC and all of the rest of the integral pieces of Iran during the Shah's tenure. Helms also was intim…
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And I'm really glad we got through this because I think it's a story that just had to be told. And I just want to reemphasize again, because this is critically important. If I could, I'd stand up and stop my feet. The FBI is a national poli…