SAVAK (Persian: ساواک short for سازمان اطلاعات و امنیت کشور Sāzemān-e Ettelā’āt va Amniyat-e Keshvar Organization of Intelligence and National Security) was the secret police domestic security and intelligence service established by Iran’s Mohammad Reza Shah with the help of the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency (the CIA). SAVAK operated from 1957 to 1979 when the Pahlavi dynasty was overthrown.
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