Manouchehr Hashemi

Manouchehr Hashemi
Born (1918-07-16)July 16, 1918
Khoi Azarbayejan, Iran
Died October 7, 2007(2007-10-07) (aged 89)
Allegiance  Iran
Service/branch SAVAK
Years of service 1938–1979
Rank Lieutenant General
Unit Iranian Army

General Manouchehr Hashemi was an Iranian spy for the Shah's SAVAK intelligence agency, who became head of its counter-espionage department (Dept VIII). After a regular career as an Army Infantry officer, he became one of SAVAK's longest-serving senior officers (serving from 1957 to 1979[1]), he had previously been head of the provincial offices of SAVAK in the provinces of Fars and Khorasan.[2] Excerpts from Hashemi's history of SAVAK were published in Payam-e Emrooz in 1988.[1]

Hashemi played a minor role in the Iran-Contra Affair, introducing Theodore Shackley to Manucher Ghorbanifar and Hassan Karroubi (brother of Mehdi Karroubi).[3][4]

References

  1. 1 2 The Iranian, 11 June 1998, A sober look at SAVAK
  2. ↑ Harvard Iranian Oral History Project, Hashemi, Manouchehr
  3. ↑ brown.edu, The Iran-Contra Affairs: The Beginning of the Affair
  4. ↑ Lee H. Hamilton, Daniel K. Inouye (1995), Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair, DIANE Publishing, p526
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