Manucher Ghorbanifar

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Manucher Ghorbanifar or Manouchehr Ghorbanifar (* 1945 ), called Gorby , is an Iranian arms dealer and Intelligence - Informant .

Ghorbanifar is said to have passed on vital information about US plans. He was a former employee of the 8th bureau (counter-espionage) of the SAVAK under the leadership of General Hashemi and later spokesman for Prime Minister Shapur Bakhtiar . He was one of the main middlemen during the Iran-Contra affair . He was an informant for the United States National Security Council and the CIA during Ronald Reagan's presidency . After suspicions arose that Ghorbanifar was not a reliable source, CIA Director William Joseph Casey ordered three lie detector tests, all of which Ghorbanifar failed. As a result, a Burn Notice was written, Manucher Ghorbanifar was classified as unreliable and implausible and burned as an informant . From then on he was considered a liar , the National Security Advisor of the United States Robert McFarlane called Ghorbanifar

"One of the most despicable characters I have ever met."

"One of the most shameful characters I have ever met"

Despite these incidents, Ghorbanifar, who lives in Nice , France , was recruited as an informant under President George W. Bush and Dick Cheney during the occupation of Iraq from 2003-2011 .

Ghorbanifar, who worked for the Iranian secret service in addition to the CIA, is also said to have been an informant for the French intelligence service Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure .

Secondary literature

  • Countdown to Terror: The Top-Secret Information that Could Prevent the Next Terrorist Attack on America ... and How the CIA has Ignored it , Curt Weldon, 2005
  • Truth About Ghorbanifar , Michael Ledeen
  • Christopher de Bellaigue: In the rose garden of the martyrs. A portrait of Iran. From the English by Sigrid Langhaeuser, Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2006 (English original edition: London 2004), pp. 184–190

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manucher Ghorbanifar in the Notable Names Database (English)
  2. ↑ CIA used Burn Notice, press release ( Memento of August 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Cheney, Informant Ghorbanifar, Occupation of Iraq, Report
  4. ↑ Exiled Iranian Has Another Run As US Informant, newspaper report
  5. ^ French Hostage Scandal , Middle East Intelligence Bulletin, Middle East Forum , February 2002
personal data
SURNAME Ghorbanifar, Manucher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gorba
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian arms dealer and intelligence informant
DATE OF BIRTH 1945