Manucher Ghorbanifar

Manouchehr Ghorbanifar (* 1945 ), called Gorby, is an Iranian arms dealer and intelligence informant.

Ghorbanifar is said to have passed over U.S. plans important information. He was a former employee of the 8 offices ( counterintelligence ) of SAVAK under the leadership of General Hashemi and later spokesman for the Prime Minister Shapur Bakhtiar. He was one of the most important middlemen during the Iran - Contra affair. He was an informant of the National Security Council of the United States and the CIA during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. After suspicions arose that Ghorbanifar was not a reliable source, CIA Director William Casey Joseph ordered three polygraph tests, which all Ghorbanifar did not exist. As a result, a Burn Notice was written, Manouchehr Ghorbanifar classified as unreliable and untrustworthy and burned as an informant. He was henceforth regarded as 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 despicable characters I have ever met "

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

Ghorbanifar, who has worked alongside the CIA for the Iranian secret service, should also have been an informant for the French intelligence service Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure.

Secondary literature

• Countdown to Terror: The Top - Secret Information Could Prevent the Next Terrorist did Attack on America ... and How the CIA Has Ignored it, Curt Weldon, 2005
• Truth About Ghorbanifar, Ledeen, Michael