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SAVAK and some members of the Shah's entourage had a vested interest in strengthening his belief that dissent was just another name for treason and one of the first things that SAVAK tried to "prove" about anyone suspected of harbouring dissident views was the foreign link. Entire dossiers were made up – filled with fake evidence or mere inferences – to show that virtually all of the regime's known critics had, at some time or other been in contact with foreign powers – chiefly the USSR, the United States, Britain, and various radical Arab states. (p. 215) (it) |
