IRANIAN POLICE LINK TO TABATABAI MURDER PROBED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000201850005-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2010
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 9, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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But the grand jury will also be; Butearlierthis year Fardoustwas-!
presented with evidence that others Menu ie by ante tvence`anI
persons, both here and abroad, may L anian exile sources as the head of
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ing : of : Tabatabai, a, prominent some sources as a mirror image.of
Khomeini critic. It also will, investi act, a. ata ai c arged
. -gate reports that as much as S5 mil- in a.newspaper.interview shortly.;
lion has been funneled into the before his death that SAVAMA con-:
United States from Iran to finance tained virtually, the same. organiza-.,
pro-Khomeini groups, sources said tional:structure- and many of the
One law-enforcement official said same agents asSAVAK
investigators are seeking to deter '.' Fardoust's?`change of'Ioyalties
mine who was "acting as a conduit" i embittered the shah and.his family.
for Iranian funds and that rote In her memoir, Faces ina Mirror;
those. activities' might have played. the shah's sister, Ashraf Pahlavi, cc-
'in Tabatabai's murder cused Fardoust of deliberately. with-
investigating--reports.that the'liead ,
of'-the Iranian' secret police-was m
the Vashington area, several days,.
before the assassination of former
Iranian Embassy-press attache:Alt
Fardoust was also in Paris about a activist Cambyse Shah-Rats Aug 1 Tabatabais brother; lvfohanirae
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r batabai was-gunned own xn p
doorway of his Bethesda home July ing of a student outside the Los An- gotiating wits" "the ,still exiled
?:~geles home of:,anti KtiomPtni Khomeini during this period
;::,yesterday that Gen,.Hossen r t'
doust;:.the head'-of .SAV AMA;.'the Akbar Farazian, was in_the country failure toprovide theshahwith this,
secret=police; agency. of Ayatollah recently, probably on the West ?: information during-the final years
Ruhollah Khomeini was reportedly .~ ; -Coast. Some Iranian exiles hav e of his- reigncontributed to his'st:d
'seen in-the area shortly before Ta .) drawn a connection between Fara- i den downfall--She said- she was
"the zians resence there and the shoots convince that Fardoust was ne
In addition to the. reported sight t "holding SAVAK information about a
ings of Fardoust, there have also sharp increase , .in anti shah -ser=
Law=enforcement sources `,said ''exile community.that another high- religious mullahs
ka rantcin SAVAhfA official Gen Ali -P3hlaui wrote that-the SAVAKs
yesterday they expect,xo, present :
t.....t ,h ?rahatahat miir
t.ment agencies..
pro-Khomeini activity here,incltid
_;.ng=.acts of violence 2:against-
:Khomeini opponents, according to
~r.frirt-
?Far'doust reportedly--came to the"
t:United states recehtly.to step up:
;''opposed to. Khomein'.'according to:
terapted'assassinauon of.former Ira
'Prime dinister:.Shahpour,.
B.akhtiar,-.the leader:'of exile forces:;
c ie : ,
said yesterday that he.is confident
week earlie'r'at the:time'of.the at =