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History
31 related topics
Operations
22 related topics
Directors
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Overview
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Key facts & relationships
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- Headquarters
- Tehran, Iran
- Agency executives
- Teymur Bakhtiar (first) · Nasser Moghaddam (last)
- Dissolved
- 12 February 1979 (1979-02-12) (de facto) 1 April 1979 (1979-04-01) (de jure)
- Employees
- 5,000 at peak
- Formed
- 12 March 1957 (1957-03-12)
- Preceding agency
- Shahrbani Intelligence Department [fa]
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Overview
- Persian Persian language
- Romanized Romanization of Persian
- Secret police
- Intelligence agency
- Imperial State of Iran Pahlavi Iran
- Tehran
- Iranian Revolution
- Shapour Bakhtiar
- SDECE Service de documentation extérieure et de contre-espionnage
- DGSE Directorate General for External Security
- Algerian War
- CIA Central Intelligence Agency
- U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- Dissidents Dissident
- Ruhollah Khomeini
- Pahlavi dynasty
- Gholam Reza Afkhami
- TIME Time (magazine)
History
- 1953 Iranian coup d'état
- Mohammad Mosaddegh
- Nationalizing Nationalization
- Shah's Shah
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- Encyclopædia Iranica
- Teymur Bakhtiar
- Tudeh Party Tudeh Party of Iran
- Major General Major general (United States)
- Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf Norman Schwarzkopf Sr.
- Lieutenant General
- Major General
- Hassan Pakravan
- Nematollah Nassiri
- Attack on a gendarmerie post Siahkal incident
- Siahkal
- Marxists Marxism
- Ervand Abrahamian
- Bastinado
- Cigarette burns
- American spacecraft Apollo (spacecraft)
- Torture
- Guerrillas Guerrilla
- Urban guerrilla Urban guerrilla warfare
- Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas
- People's Mojahedin of Iran People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
- Hamid Ashraf
- White Revolution
- Jimmy Carter
- President of the United States
Directors
- Ali Motazed
- Mansour Ghadr Mansour Ghadr?action=edit&redlink=1
- Fa منصور قدر
- Samad Samadianpour
- Mostafa Amjadi Mostafa Amjadi?action=edit&redlink=1
- Fa مصطفی امجدی
- Nasser Moghaddam
- Parviz Sabeti
- Farajollah Rasaei
- Manouchehr Hashemi
Operations
- Evin Prison
- United States
- France
- United Kingdom
- Stipends Stipend
- New York New York (state)
- Mansur Rafizadeh
- Jamiat-e Islami
- 1975 Panjshir Valley uprising
- 1975 Laghman uprising
- Republic of Afghanistan Republic of Afghanistan (1973–1978)
- ISI Inter-Services Intelligence
- Afghan–Iranian relations Afghanistan–Iran relations
- Mohammad Daoud Khan
- Saur Revolution
- KGB
- Afghan Army
- Mohammed Rafie
- Sayed Mohammad Gulabzoy
- Kabul
- PDPA People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
- Ryszard Kapuściński
Victims
Fardoust and security and intelligence after the revolution
- SAVAMA Ministry of Intelligence (Iran)
- Hossein Fardoust
- Towhid Prison
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Nodes92
Edges91
Triples138
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.021739
Components1
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Top relations
related to Fardoust and security and intelligence after the revolution · 27
SAVAK → According, After, Amniat-e Melli-e Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Charles Kurzman, Ebrat, Fardoust, February, Following, Hossein Fardoust, However, Imperial Inspectorate, Intelligence, Iran, Iranian Revolution, January, Khomeini, Ministry, National Security, SAVAK's
related to Siahkal attack and after · 23
SAVAK → Abrahamian, According, American, Apollo, Ayatollah Muhammad Reza Sa'idi, Brute, Caspian, Despite, Ervand Abrahamian, February, Hamid Ashraf, Iran, Iranian, Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas, Marxists, Organization, People's Mojahedin, Prisoners, SAVAK's, Shia
related to Operations · 22
SAVAK → An Insider's Account, CIA, During, Evin Prison, France, From, General Nassiri's, In, Involvement, Iran, Iranians, It, Mansur Rafizadeh, New York, SAVAK's United States, Secret Arms Deal, Shah, Teymur Bakhtiar, The, United Kingdom
related to 1957–1971 · 21
SAVAK → According, After, Amniyat-e Keshvar, Army, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Encyclopædia Iranica, He, In March, In October, Iran's, Iranian, Major General Herbert Norman, Mohammad Reza Shah, Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, SAVAK's, Sazeman-e Ettela'at, Schwarzkopf, Shah's, The Shah's
related to Organization · 17
SAVAK → AdministrationSeventh General Directorate, AgenciesEighth General Directorate, Archives, Cadres, Ceremonies, Correspondence, CounterintelligenceThe Ninth General Directorate, Courses, Directorate, First General Directorate, Foreign IntelligenceThird General Directorate, Internal SecurityFourth General Directorate, Liaison, Passport Department, SecretariatSecond General Directorate, Security Within SAVAKFifth General, Technical AffairsSixth General Directorate
related to Number of employees · 11
SAVAK → February, Given, However, In, Iran, Iranians, Islamic Revolution, Leaflets, Over, Shah, To
related to Victims · 8
SAVAK → American Scientists, February, Iran's, Shah's, The FAS, The Federation, Time, Writing
Agency executives · 2
SAVAK → Nasser Moghaddam (last), Teymur Bakhtiar (first)
Dissolved · 1
SAVAK → 12 February 1979 (1979-02-12) (de facto) 1 April 1979 (1979-04-01) (de jure)
Employees · 1
SAVAK → 5,000 at peak
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Important terminology
intelligence security torture 1979 political iran also general iranian shah cia revolution agency 000 agents february organization employees 1957 mohammad
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAVAK | Agency executives | Teymur Bakhtiar (first) | 1.00 | infobox |
| SAVAK | Agency executives | Nasser Moghaddam (last) | 1.00 | infobox |
| SAVAK | Dissolved | 12 February 1979 (1979-02-12) (de facto) 1 April 1979 (1979-04-01) (de jure) | 1.00 | infobox |
| SAVAK | Employees | 5,000 at peak | 1.00 | infobox |
| SAVAK | Formed | 12 March 1957 (1957-03-12) | 1.00 | infobox |
| SAVAK | Headquarters | Tehran, Iran | 1.00 | infobox |
| SAVAK | Preceding agency | Shahrbani Intelligence Department [fa] | 1.00 | infobox |
| SAVAK | Superseding agency | Prime Ministry Intelligence Office | 1.00 | infobox |
| SAVAK | Type | Secret police Intelligence agency | 1.00 | infobox |
| SAVAK | related to 1957–1971 | After | 0.60 | section |
| SAVAK | related to 1957–1971 | Iranian | 0.60 | section |
| SAVAK | related to 1957–1971 | Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh | 0.60 | section |
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