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 through the period after he established himself as an agent and CIA collaborator.
We present Gholamreza Hosseini and his story as one of several cautionary yet regrettable tales, and in this process, we have added little more than the findings of Reuters experts and journalists who included direct and unmediated narratives from Gholamreza and several security figures in their report, and we will not add more.
We reached the point where Gholamreza Hosseini, encouraged by his collaboration with the Americans and taking seriously the role they assigned to him, changed his colors and was willing to cooperate with the Executive Headquarters of Imam’s Directive and many contract brokers to penetrate various structures more than before.
Tavanir’s Power in the Commercial Complex
Gholamreza was quickly tasked, based on a pre-existing plan, to gain maximum knowledge about Iran’s power grid, and naturally, specifically the power grid of areas where nuclear power plants are located, and he planned to achieve this goal.
He succeeded in obtaining an important contract from the Executive Headquarters of Imam’s Directive, and contrary to his past frustrations with contract brokerage and bribe-taking by military and non-military personnel, he eagerly followed all the corrupting rules of this style of relations. What was the project? A shopping mall.
Gholamreza secured a contract for supplying and structuring the power network of a large commercial complex belonging to the Executive Headquarters, and for this project, he prepared a plan that, apart from the heavy costs naturally associated with commission skimming and embezzlement, was a massive power supply project.
In any situation, the formation of such a process in an independent and law-abiding country is impossible, and if it occurs, the corrupt dimensions are controlled by legal and administrative oversight and monitoring, and naturally, the administrative, structural, and security dimensions are also controlled.
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 frameworks.
Gholamreza designed the power supply project for a commercial complex in such a way that its magnitude allowed him to easily negotiate with Tavanir Company to supply power to a shopping mall belonging to a sacred entity like the Executive Headquarters.
In meetings with Gholamreza and his company, Tavanir Company informed him that the project he designed was so massive and complex that supplying power for it, if not impossible, would be very difficult.
Gholamreza achieved his goal. Naturally, relying on collaboration with a sacred organization like the Executive Headquarters, he asked Tavanir Company to make efforts to fulfill the ideals. As a result, he succeeded in persuading Tavanir to give him the plans if they couldn’t do it themselves so that he could work to achieve the sacred ideals. What was the outcome? Detailed national power grid 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 noting at this specific point in the narrative that, based on journalistic standards and media laws, Reuters experts contacted Iranian officials at every stage of their investigations on every related topic to seek their reactions, and they received no response.
Happy Birthday
One year after Gholamreza Hosseini’s contacts with CIA security officers were finalized and his numerous trips abroad and meetings with intermediaries, his trip to Dubai for a special meeting became, in fact, a turning point. In a hotel in Dubai, he held a special session with the Americans, during which CIA agents brought him into a new phase of cooperation with their organization.
More than anything, it became clear that Gholamreza Hosseini played a serious role in the CIA’s task forces related to Iran. In this part of the narrative, Gholamreza did not tell Reuters experts about the importance of his role, but with what happened in this meeting, this reality becomes entirely apparent.
The Americans valued Gholamreza Hosseini so much that they placed a special document before him to commit that the cooperation and information exchange he conducted for them would not be shared with any other government, and he would not provide his information to any other organization or country. This is a sign of Gholamreza’s importance.
In this meeting, amidst casual conversations with the Americans, Gholamreza mentioned his daughter and regretfully said that 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 period, but that birthday gift doll still exists.
Trouble
Gholamreza’s meeting with the Americans in Dubai was the beginning of a path that ended in a major disaster in his life. He committed to cooperating only with the Americans and the CIA, and the closeness of hearts and friendships reached the exchange of gifts, but that was not all the events of that session. 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 interactions and information transfers targeted and organized.
The path chosen for this new program by CIA agents was a football website. Unbelievable, right? But indeed, the Americans thought, and to some extent, it was a clever idea that a specific and small part of a useless and unused football website would not attract anyone’s attention.
So what could be better than having a simple and insignificant link that they and Gholamreza knew about, and that would work with a special username and password? Everything would be in order, and things would be on track. Gholamreza returned with his account and password and the birthday gift doll for his daughter. He didn’t know that he was stepping from football gates into the depths of hell. Follow the story of Gholamreza Hosseini with us.
So far, the series of articles on CIA’s Betrayal of Colleagues has been published in four parts. You have read Part Three. To read 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