GHOTBZADEH CONFESSES TO PLOT TO KILL KHOMEINI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000706880003-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 20, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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BOSTON GLOBE
20 APRIL 1982
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TEHRAitl as - Sadegh ghotbzadelr~r posaJ to kill thy: imam Khomeini; Hand the CIA former foretgn''minister'c fesged yester ; said, but thenI; reconsidered .'T wanted
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day to having'plotted tokili"AyafoIIah Ru=him to be saved',;. but I did not know. how (In Pais yesterda Vtllalon descril
hollah Khomeini. Iran?'W-Islamic, revolu a to go about it ' the assertions that he was involved in. I
tionary leader: and implicated a leading % alleged plot as "raving madness J ..-
Shlifeclergyman in the.plot Ghotzbadeh said that the plotters
Ina 15-minute statement.on Iranian
'ere w+ armed for the`attack.but had sent a+ Ghotbzadeh? who served as Iran's f
television, Ghotbzadeh: who-was arrested list of weapons they lacked to "Hector Vil- eign minister from December 1979 to S
last week on charges' of plotting to over-" talon, who was unable 'to provide them tembe r,.1980, said, "In my present.sit,
throw Khomeini,, said:?'._ because he had not received funds tion. I voluntarily accept the punishme
"Two.ranking officers proposed_blow `.~ ti that awaitsnne
Ing up a house near the residence of the Villalon was named earlier yesterday .The president of the military dente when he was receiving the national" Involved in the tlonary court said Ghat a public tr
g princI plot.
would be held for 45 alleged plotte
pal 1T Two In etrmediaries,. HoJatoleslams that Villawith hmoneotandvWea on supplied es bthe~ uti three' or whom were Iranian army co
Haj Mlehdi=Madavi? and Abdul Rezah 'He-? nets. .., _ .. -? r-.....~
javi, told me that 'Ayatollah:[Kazemj
' Shariat Madart- had told them he could,
contributesothing toward carrying out,
the- plan but'? that,: if it succeeded, hei
would make statements In 'Its-. upport,'!
Ghotbzadeh said, who faces-the death
penalty onthe,plot charges.
Shartat-Madari. the spiritual leader of
the northwest Iranian city of; Tabriz. is a
moderate member of Iran's Islamic clergy
,
who has objected to aspects of the Moslem,
extremist regime Instituted by'Khomeini:
Ghotbiadeh,said he 'was, seeking toy
overthrow-; the government, and 'not' to
change the regime of the'Islamic repub
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