A Time to Betray
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A Time to Betray

The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

A Time to Betray

The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran

About this book

An exhilarating true story that reads like a spy thriller about a former CIA operative recruited out of Iran, while he served as a member of the secretive and highly feared Revolutionary Guards of Iran. A TIME TO BETRAY This exhilarating, award-winning memoir of a secret double life reveals the heart-wrenching story of a man who spied for the American government in the ranks of the notorious Revolutionary Guards of Iran, risking everything by betraying his homeland in order to save it. Reza Kahlili grew up in Tehran surrounded by his close-knit family and friends. But the enlightened Iran of his youth vanished forever, as Reza discovered upon returning home from studying computer science in the United States, when the revolution of 1979 ushered in Ayatollah Khomeini's dark age of religious fundamentalism. Clinging to the hope of a Persian Renaissance, Reza joined the Ayatollah's elite Revolutionary Guards. As Khomeini's tyrannies unfolded, as fellow countrymen turned on each other, and after the deeply personal horrors he witnessed firsthand inside Evin Prison, a shattered and disillusioned Reza returned to America to dangerously become "Wally, " a spy for the CIA. In A Time to Betray, Reza not only relates his razor's-edge, undercover existence from moment to heart-pounding moment as he supplies vital information from the Iran-Iraq War, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, the Iran-Contra affair, and more; he also documents a chain of incredible events that culminates in a nation's fight for freedom that continues to this very day, making this a timely and vital perspective on the future of Iran and the fate of the world.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Disclaimer
  7. 1 TRUTH OR LIES
  8. 2 THREE FRIENDS
  9. 3 COMING TO AMERICA
  10. 4 SHAH RAFT: THE REVOLUTION
  11. 5 THE INVINCIBLE IMAM
  12. 6 A FUNERAL AND A WEDDING
  13. 7 EVIN PRISON
  14. 8 COMMITMENTS
  15. 9 THE PRAYER
  16. 10 CODE NAME: WALLY
  17. 11 TRICKS OF THE TRADE
  18. 12 TRAINING FOR ESPIONAGE
  19. 13 A SPY RETURNS HOME
  20. 14 BROTHERS IN ARMS
  21. 15 HOPE AND PERIL
  22. 16 HEJAB
  23. 17 THE TORCH IS PASSED
  24. 18 THE RADICAL
  25. 19 SUSPICIONS
  26. 20 ANOTHER MARTYR
  27. 21 TOO CLOSE TO HOME
  28. 22 FAR FROM HOME
  29. 23 GOD’S HOUSE
  30. 24 BROTHER, MY BROTHER
  31. 25 LEAVING HOME
  32. 26 BACK INTO THE COLD
  33. 27 EYE FOR AN EYE
  34. 28 DOUBLE AGENT
  35. 29 FREE AT LAST?
  36. 30 VATAN
  37. 31 OMID, HOPE
  38. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS