Hossein Fardoust

Hussein Fardust also Hossein Fardust (Persian حسین فردوست; * 1917 in Tehran, † 1987) was a close personal friend and confidant of the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, deputy director of SAVAK and head of the Imperial inspectorat organization. After the Islamic Revolution he was commissioned by the Revolutionary Council, to build the successor organization of the SAVAK, the SAVAMA, later renamed the MOIS and to act as its first director.

Life

Hussein was born in 1917 as the son of a lieutenant of the Iranian army. At eight, he visited an elementary school that prepared children for the military in a later career in the army. When Reza Shah decided to leave the palace grounds a class set up, at the instruction should his son Mohammad Reza participate Hussein Fardust was selected as one of the classmates for Mohammad Reza. Mohammad Reza and Hussein quickly became friends, and in 1931 visited Hussein Fardust as a close school friend of the young prince, together with Mohammad Reza the Swiss boarding school Le Rosey. The court adopted the school fees and all other expenses. After five years of Hussein and Mohammad Reza returned to Iran.

After his return to Iran Hussein Fardust enrolled in the Academy of the Iranian army officer and again visited the same class as Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The life of Hussein Fardust changed completely as Mohammad Reza Pahlavi who replaced his father as Shah. Hussein Fardust enjoyed, such as Mohammad Reza later confirmed his complete confidence. He had acquired its present position only by its merits.

As Mohammad Mossadegh in 1951 Prime Minister of Iran was one of the first Fardust Hussein, who had to rely on the instructions Mossadegh's Iran. He went to Paris and began studying law. In Paris, Fardust turned to an Iranian carpet dealer named Saberi, to borrow money for his further stay in France. Saberi was a focal point for stranded in France Iranians and helped generously with money. Also Fardust Saberi borrowed money and became friends with him. As it turned out later, Saberi worked for the Soviet secret service KGB. If it be true that Hussein Fardust later worked for the KGB, it was probably Saberi, who recruited him.

After the overthrow of Mossadegh Fardust returned to Iran and resumed his position as a confidant of the Shah one. Prime Minister Fazlollah Zahedi received a credible report of Iran's military intelligence that Fardust together working with foreign intelligence agencies. Zahedi submitted the report to the Shah, who angrily rejected this and complained that the government does not even wanted to treat yourself to a single personal friend of him.

In 1957, the SAVAK was founded, Hussein Fardust became head of the Coordinating Bureau of the intelligence services of Iran ( Daftar -e Vijeh ( Special Office)). In this office all the secret reports ran and were evaluated and summarized by Fardust for the Shah. From the coordination office another control office, the Imperial inspectorat organization, a nearly 200 employees, the organization that was only the Shah accountable later developed, and had the option to obtain all documents and information about each person. Fardust retained this position until the fall of the Shah.

By the mid- seventies Fardust met daily the Shah to him personally to learn about the most important details of the intelligence reports. Why Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Hussein Fardust no longer wanted to personally welcome you two to three years before his fall, is still unclear. Fardust retained his position, but now found himself forced the Shah to deliver daily written reports. The personal friendship that Mohammad Reza and Hussein had joined so many years, was visibly broken. Some of the greatest generals of the Iranian army worked for some time under the leadership of Hussein Fardust in Daftar -e Vijeh, including General Abbas Garabagi, who acted as the supreme commander of the Iranian armed forces when the Shah in January 1979 left Iran, and with its decision not to continue to support proposed by Shah and Prime Minister Shapur Bakhtiar confirmed by Parliament against its own absolute power parallel to Bakhtiar Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan, Khomeini appointed by the past. Fardust used obviously the last years of his ministry, to establish close links with generals of the Iranian armed forces, who opposed the Shah critical, and which play a crucial role in the dissolution of the old power structures of the constitutional monarchy in Iran in the first phase of the Islamic Revolution should. Just the fact that the generals Hussein and Abbas Fardust Garabagi the Islamic Revolution without prejudice survived, even though they had worked together for many years with the Shah, is considered by many as evidence of their involvement in the Islamic Revolution. When intensified the protests against the Shah in 1978 and Fardust was approached by officers and politicians to finally do something to stop Khomeini declared Fardust. "This is completely useless now to do anything The Shah has before long time been guilty of breaking the law. It is high time that he is paying the price for it. "

The fall of the Shah survived Colonel General Fardust - its capital transfer abroad was to the end of 1978, " only " 12 million DM - by time with the Revolutionary Council were contacted and enlisted. By 1985, he found the grace of Khomeini. One or twice to Fardust Khomeini warned of attacks and thus saved his life. A connection to Moscow, supposedly he was on the payroll of the KGB, however, meant the end of his career. In 1987, he allegedly died of heart failure.