Ahmad Behbahani
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Ahmad Beladi Behbahani is a man who was interviewed in Turkey for a CBS 60 Minutes programme in June 2000 and claimed to be a senior Iranian intelligence service defector.
Ahmad Behbahani said that until recently he had been responsible for all "terrorist" operations carried out by the Iranian Government beyond its borders. CBS quoted him as saying that these operations included the bombing which downed Pan Am Flight 103 above Lockerbie in December 1988, killing all 259 aboard and 11 people on the ground.
Behbahani did not appear in the programme in person, because the CBS producers were prevented by the Turkish authorities from recording an interview. However, he told them that he himself had first suggested the plan to bomb Pan Am 103 to Ahmed Jibril, who heads a Syrian-backed armed group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine–General Command.
He also said Iran spent 90 days training a group of Libyans for the operation.
CBS said Abolhassan Banisadr, the former Iranian president who has lived for many years in exile in Paris, first alerted the programme makers to what the former intelligence operative had to say. Banisadr also has a recording of a telephone conversation claiming that the 1994 Buenos Aires bombing was co-ordinated by Ahmed Jibril under direction of Iran.[1]
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