Tudeh Military Network

The Officers' Organization (Persian: سازمان افسران‎)[6] or the Military Organization (Persian: سازمان نظامی‎)[6] of the Tudeh Party, also known as Tudeh Military Network,[1] was an intelligence gathering network that infiltrated the Iranian Armed Forces using clandestine cell system method.

Tudeh Military Network
Founding leader	Abdulsamad Kambakhsh[1]
Leaders	Khosro Roozbeh
Dates of operation	1944[1]–1957[2] 1970s[2]–1983
Allegiance	Soviet Union
Active regions	Iran
Ideology	Communism
Size	≈600 (1954)[3] ≈100 (1983)[4]
Part of	Tudeh Party of Iran
Allies	Azerbaijani Democratic Party[1] Democratic Party of Kurdistan[5]
Opponents	Second Bureau British Network
Battles and wars	1945 Khorasan revolt 1946 Azerbaijan revolt

Bibliography

• Black Book on Tudeh Officers Organization [Ketab-e Siyah darbareh-e Sazman-e Afsaran-e Tudeh] (Translated ed.). Office of the Military Governor of Teheran. 2014 [1956]. ISBN 978-3844278132 – via epubli.

References

1. Miyata, Osamu (July 1987), "The Tudeh Military Network during the Oil Nationalization Period", Middle Eastern Studies, 23 (3): 313–328, doi:10.1080/00263208708700709, JSTOR 4283187
2. Gasiorowski, Mark J. (November 1993), "The Qarani Affair and Iranian Politics", International Journal of Middle East Studies, 25 (4): 625–644, doi:10.1017/S0020743800059298, JSTOR 164538
3. Daneshvar, Parviz (2016). Revolution in Iran. Springer. p. 37. ISBN 1349140627.
4. Zabir, Sepehr (2011). The Iranian Military in Revolution and War (RLE Iran D) (Reprint. ed.). Routledge. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-415-61785-7.
5. Michael M. Gunter (2010). Historical Dictionary of the Kurds. Scarecrow Press. p. 133. ISBN 9780810875074.
6. Behrooz, Maziar (August 2001). "Tudeh Factionalism and the 1953 Coup in Iran". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 33 (3): 363–82. doi:10.1017/S0020743801003026. JSTOR 259456.

External links

• The Officers' Organization of the Tudeh Party (PDF) (Report), Central Intelligence Agency, 1955, RDP78-00915R000400030005-9