CIA ACTIVITIES IN IRAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000403380002-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 19, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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RADIO N REPORTS, INC.
4701 WILLARD AVENUE, CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND 20815 [phone]
NBC Nightly News
WRC-TV
NBC Network
November 19, 1986 7:00 P.M.
Washington, D.C.
TOM BROKAW: The Washington Post reported today that the
CIA has been trying to win favor for the United States in Iran
for seven years now, dating back to the Jimmy Carter Administra-
tion. The story describes how the CIA set up its Soviet counter-
part, the KGB.
More on all of this tonight from NBC's Art Kent.
ART KENT: Intelligence sources confirm that even while
there were daily anti-American demonstrations in the streets of
Teheran in 1979, the CIA was beginning a series of operations
designed to place the United States in the position of supporting
whoever ended up in power. When KGB officer Vladimir Kusizhkin
(?) defected to Britain in 1982, he supplied details on KGB
operations in Iran. The CIA gave that information to the
Iranians, and the Iranians arrested and executed more than 100
Soviet agents and outlawed the Iranian Communist Party.
On the other hand, this man, Ahmed Modani (?), the
former Iranian Navy commander, was the leader of one of several
anti-Khomeini exile groups that received CIA money. The exiles
were a source of intelligence, not always reliable, from Iran,
intelligence officials say.
The CIA also arranged for another exile, Reza Pahlavi,
the son of the late Shah, to make a clandestine broadcast into
Iran last September.
Former CIA Director Admiral Stansfield Turner says that
seeming contradictions in the CIA operations for and against
Khomeini hide the real purpose.
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ADMIRAL STANSFIELD TURNER: We want very much to try to
insure that when Khomeini dies, and if after that there is a
struggle for power inside Iran, that the Soviets don't have a leg
up on the situation.
KENT: But one congressional source said tonight that if
the CIA were this active in Iran, it should have known about the
/'clandestine arms shipments. CIA Director Casey is likely to be
asked why he didn't tell Congress about that when he appears
before the Senate Intelligence Committee Friday.
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