CIA’s Betrayal of Colleagues Part Three
In Part Three of CIA’s Betrayal of Colleagues, we follow the story of Gholamreza Hosseini and his collaboration with the Central Intelligence Agency to infiltrate Iran’s nuclear and energy structures, narrated from the time he became established as an agent and CIA collaborator.
We present Gholamreza Hosseini and his story as one of several cautionary and more so regrettable tales, and in this process, we add little beyond the findings of Reuters experts and journalists who included Gholamreza’s direct and unmediated account and those of several security figures in their report.
We reached the point where Gholamreza Hosseini, encouraged by his collaboration with the Americans and taking seriously the role they assigned him, changed his colors and was willing to cooperate with the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order and many contract brokers to infiltrate various structures more than before.
Tavanir’s Power in the Commercial Complex
Gholamreza was quickly tasked with a mission, considering the pre-planned strategy to gain maximum knowledge about Iran’s electricity network, and naturally, specifically the network in regions where nuclear power plants are located, to achieve this goal.
He succeeded in securing an important contract from the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order and, contrary to his past frustrations with contract brokering and bribery from military and non-military individuals, passionately followed all the corrupt rules of this type of relationship. What was the project? A shopping mall.
Gholamreza secured a contract to supply and structure the electricity network for a large commercial complex belonging to the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order, and for this project, he prepared a plan that, aside from the heavy costs naturally involving commission skimming and manipulation, was a heavy electricity supply project.
In any independent and law-abiding country, the formation of such a process is impossible, and if it occurs, legal and administrative oversight and monitoring control the corrupt dimensions from one side and the administrative, structural, and naturally security dimensions from the other.
In Iran, unfortunately, this process was and is normal, and Gholamreza Hosseini, by playing according to these corrupt and foolish rules, easily reached the gates of structural, security, and strategic areas.
Gholamreza designed the electricity supply project for a commercial complex in such a way that its magnitude would allow him to easily negotiate with Tavanir Company to supply electricity for a shopping mall belonging to a sacred entity like the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order.
In meetings with Gholamreza and his company, Tavanir Company informed him that the project he designed was so massive and complex that supplying its electricity, if not impossible, would be very difficult.
Gholamreza had achieved his goal. Naturally, relying on collaboration with a sacred organization like the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order, he asked Tavanir Company to make efforts to realize the ideals. As a result, he succeeded in forcing Tavanir to, if they couldn’t do it themselves, give him the plans so he could work towards achieving the sacred goals. What was the outcome? Detailed national electricity network plans were easily handed over to Gholamreza.
It couldn’t have been better, and his mission at this stage was almost successfully completed. It is worth mentioning at this specific point in the narrative that, based on journalism rules and media laws, Reuters experts contacted Iranian officials at every stage of their investigations and regarding every related topic to seek their reactions, and they received no response.
Happy Birthday
A year after finalizing Gholamreza Hosseini’s contacts with CIA security officers and his multiple trips abroad and meetings with intermediaries, his trip to Dubai for a special meeting actually became decisive. He held a special meeting with the Americans in a hotel in Dubai, during which CIA agents inducted him into a new phase of collaboration with their organization.
More than anything, it became clear that Gholamreza Hosseini played a serious role in the plans of Iran-related task forces in the CIA. In this part of his narrative, Gholamreza did not tell Reuters experts about the significance of his role, but what happened in this meeting made this reality quite evident.
The Americans valued Gholamreza Hosseini so much that they placed a special document before him to pledge that the cooperation and information exchange he conducts for them would not occur with any other government and that he would not share his information with any other organization or country. This signifies Gholamreza’s importance.
In this meeting, Gholamreza, amidst casual conversations with the Americans, mentioned his daughter and regretfully said he missed his daughter’s birthday celebration due to the trip to Dubai and the meeting with them. One of the CIA agents gave a doll as a gift for Gholamreza’s daughter, and in short, hearts were so close. Gholamreza doesn’t have much from that time, but that birthday gift doll still exists.
Trouble
Gholamreza’s meeting with the Americans in Dubai was the beginning of a path that led to the great disaster of his life. He pledged to collaborate only with the Americans and the CIA, and the closeness of hearts and friendships reached the point of exchanging gifts, but that wasn’t all the events of that meeting. If commitments were to become serious, interactions were also supposed to become advanced.
In the Dubai meeting held in 2008, the Americans provided Gholamreza with a special and new path for communication, interaction, information sharing, and contact. Naturally, the purpose of this transformation in interaction with Gholamreza was to establish contacts and make information exchange purposeful and organized.
The path considered by the CIA agents for this new program was a football website. It’s unbelievable, isn’t it? But really, the Americans thought, and to some extent, it was a clever idea that a specific and small section of a useless and unnoticed football website wouldn’t attract anyone’s attention.
So what could be better than having a simple and insignificant link that only they and Gholamreza knew about, and it would work with a special username and password? Everything would be in order, and the situation would be under control. Gholamreza returned with his account and password and his daughter’s birthday gift doll. He didn’t know he was stepping from the football gates into the depths of hell. Follow Gholamreza Hosseini’s story with us.
So far, the series of articles ‘CIA’s Betrayal of Colleagues’ has been published in four parts. You have read Part Three. To read the other parts, click on the links below.
- CIA’s Betrayal of Colleagues Part One
- CIA’s Betrayal of Colleagues Part Two
- CIA’s Betrayal of Colleagues Part Four