Neuberger, Guenter and Opperskalski, Michael. CIA im Iran: Die Geheimdokumente
aus der Teheraner US-Botschaft. Goettingen, Germany: Lamuv Verlag Gmbh, 1982.
160 pages.
When Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979, some
documents were shredded at the last minute by conscientious staffers. But
the low-budget machines cut the paper in only one direction, so after years
of work by Iranians skilled at weaving Persian carpets, sixty volumes of
"Documents from the U.S. Espionage Den" were eventually published. By the
late 1980s, most of these could be purchased at the National Intelligence
Book Center in Washington DC. It wasn't always this easy. In late 1981 a
13-volume set was widely available in Iran, but three U.S. journalists had
theirs confiscated by FBI and customs officials. However, a second set was
overlooked by customs, and the Washington Post did a series based on this
set that ran from January 31 to February 6, 1982.
This book reproduced 64 pages of documents, a dozen or so at the end
of each of five chapters of commentary in German. Unlike most of the Tehran
embassy documents, the most famous one had nothing to do with Iran. It was
a secret 47-page overview of Israel's foreign intelligence and security
services that was issued by the CIA in 1979. It does not appear in this
collection, but was published by CounterSpy magazine in May-June 1982.
ISBN 3-921521-54-8
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