KHOMEINI'S AGENTS ABOUND

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• Document Release Date: January 3, 2012
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• Publication Date: October 16, 1983
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,Tack Anderson
Khomeini's
Agents
Abound
The world has not beard the fast of
Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini The wasci-
ble old mullah is stirring up revolution
wherever he can find enough disciples
to carry the torch.
There is even mar alarming now
Khomeini is trying to develop rxrciear
weapam The CIA has learned that he
hopes to use the shah's old audear
power program to build bombe.
Even with conventional weaon,
meannwhi e, Iran is taking its place with
the Soviet Union and Libya as a threat to
the stability of other governments, The
ewwling Khomeini has a unique gift for
iraurrectiorisry indtement To mnlliarn of
himself
Shiite as the bModems, he has pu*W earer of the true fiamie. If the
Shiites make up only about 10 percent of
the world d'a 500 million Moaieme, be evi-
dently believes the odds can be overcome
by dedication and terrorism,
Khomeini has a training academy
for terrorists at the holy city of Qom,
where recruits from Morocco, Nigeria
and Saudi Arabia are instructed in
guerrilla tactics along with their reli.
gious indoctrination.
A principal target of the Shute
agents is the United States. As I re-
vealed on may 10, top-secret intelli.
gene intercepts indicated that the
ayatollah's terrorists played a part in
the April bombing of the American
Embassy in Beira
Now a fuller list of Klromeiri's
deadly trade in revoisrtioo has been
made available to my associate, Dale
Van Atta, by CIA and her sources:
Afghonista+: The Iranians are se.
csetly aiding anti-Soviet guerrillas who
are Shiite Moslems, and giving relief to
the thousands of Shiite refugees from
Afghanistan, Yet Iran is giving no aid
to Sunni Moslems inside Afghanistan,
and have fied their homeland Su:rnus
who
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Lebanon: Khomeini has more than
1,000 agents operating in the Baalbek
region of eastern Lebanon, where a
breakaway Islamic state has been pro.
cWme&
Iraq: As part of its three-year war
with Iraq, Iran has given aid to terror.
ist groups among the Shiite majority in
enemy territory, hoping fora sectarian
rebel uprising.
Bahrain: Details from the secret
trial of plotters in a December 1981,
coup attempt in this pro-Western
Persian Gulf nation show the extent Of
__Khomaini's mvolvemeni The plotter
were trained in Tehran and got arms
and fake Bahraini police uniforms
from Iran, way radios
smuggkd in ha s charge ams~ pouch by
the Iranian c~8'8 'affarres,
Saudi Arobia At loot 200 of the
Iranian "students" who stormed the
American Embassy in Tehran in
November 1879, have been not at
various times to stv up trouble in
au Arabia. disguised as pilgrims,
The Iranians have tried to smuggle
try by diplomatic pond the Beadle 0-
sands of Iranians
the holy cities of Meosca and mated rXft at
'pt: Iranian agents have been
busy along the Nile. At one point, a
Soviet diplomat helped recruit
E'P
tian academics at the University of
Alexandria to work with Khomeini's
agents and other Moslem fundamen-
talists to overthrow the government
PhXppimr Khomeini has been
,upporting the anti.Marcce Moro Na.
tonal Liberation Front, which has an
office in Tehran.
Pakistan' Iranian agents Instigated
the Shia-Sunni riots Karachi earlier
this year.
Turkey: Alarmed by the attempts of
Iranian agents to eta up trouble in
eastern Turkey, the Turkish govern-
ment had a secret committee of mili-
Iranian whrti on. experts study the
r
duded that "Turkey's dTbe emocratic roots
and historical traditions" would pre-
vent a similar catastrophe. But the se-
cret CIA report on this added omi-
nously.
"We are not certain that this is
North Yemen Iranian agents have
been helping dissident plotters, and
Yemeni exiles in Saudi Arabia have
used Iranian, diplomats in North
Yemen uggle out militants and
Fiona: Khomeini's agents are sus-
pected of helping Armenian terrorists
in Paris, in retaliation for French
weapons antes to Iraq. The CIA notes
that Armenians attacked French tar-
gets in Tehran last summer virtually .
unchecked by the authorities, and that
Armenian terrorists who hijacked an
Air Fram
ordered n finally in Vienna in August
to By to Tehran.
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