Document #1151212

IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)

Relationship between SAVAK and regular police forces, circa 1960s. [IRN5100]

Attached please find a copy of the response to Information Request #IRN3785 which includes all of the documentation currently available to the IRBDC on SAVAK. This documentation stresses that SAVAK was a "political police force under military officers" and further states that the Shah "had to depend on the state's repressive agencies - SAVAK, police and military - to maintain himself in power." [ Dilip Hiro, Iran Under the Ayatollahs, (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987), p.41, 96.]

ecoi.net description:
Relationship between SAVAK and regular police forces, circa 1960s. [IRN5100]
Country:
Iran
Source:
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Published:
1 May 1990
Document type:
Response
Language:
English
Document ID:
1151212 (former ID 182149)

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