SAVAK
Appearance
سازمان اطلاعات و امنیت کشور | |
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Agency overview | |
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Formed | 20 March 1957 |
Dissolved | February 12, 1979 |
Superseding agency | |
Headquarters | Tehran |
Employees | 5,000 at peak[1] |
Agency executives |
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SAVAK (Persian: ساواک, abbreviation for سازمان اطلاعات و امنیت کشور Sâzemân-e Ettelâ'ât va Amniat-e Kešvar, lit. '"Intelligence and Security Organization of the Country"')[2] was the secret police, domestic security and intelligence service in Iran during the reign of the Pahlavi dynasty.
Directors
[change | change source]No. | Portrait | Director | Took office | Left office | Time in office |
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1 | Timsar Teymur Bakhtiar (1914–1970) | 1957 | 1961 | 3–4 years | |
2 | Hassan Pakravan (1911–1979) | Timsar1961 | 1965 | 3–4 years | |
3 | Nematollah Nassiri (1911–1979) | Timsar1965 | 1978 | 12–13 years | |
4 | Nasser Moghaddam (1921–1979) | Timsar1978 | 1979 | 0–1 years |
Related pages
[change | change source]- Second Bureau of Imperial Iranian Army
- Prime Ministry Intelligence Office
- Ministry of Intelligence (Iran)
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Andrew Scott Cooper,The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran Hardcover – July 19, 2016 ISBN 0805098976, p. 231
- ↑ Summary - U.S. Department of State - State Department
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- Ministry of Intelligence and Security VEVAK – Iran Intelligence Agencies at website of Federation of American Scientists