Chapter 3 in the Continuing Saga of the Disappearing Ole Black Dog!
March 6, 2007
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This is the third update we have issued on this particular news entity on our Blogs in the last few days.
This saga seems to be of the caliber of “The Spy who came in out of the Cold,” with perhaps a more appropriate title of “The Spy who ran away from the Heat.” This sure isn’t attracting the degree of television media coverage as the “Whose ‘Yo’re’ Daddy Bermuda Triangle Mystery,” but it is certainly more interesting and deserving of coverage.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Report: Iranian general has info on Arad
JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST
March 5, 2007
Ali Reza Asgari, the Iranian general and former spy chief, who went missing after checking into an Istanbul hotel on February 7, was a key figure in the case of
captured IAF navigator Ron Arad, the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported on Monday.
Reportedly, Asgari, who was a Revolutionary Guards commander at the end of the eighties and beginning of the nineties, was involved in a deal to transfer Arad to the Iranians in exchange for a large sum of money.
The Telegraph said it was understood that Hizbullah guerillas might have passed Arad up the chain of command to
their Iranian handlers.
The Telegraph also suggested that the former spy chief was not kidnapped by an intelligence service but defected while visiting Turkey, escaping to a Western country, and Israel and the US were showing special interest in the case since Asgari might be able to shed some light on the fate of Arad.
The report followed Iranian claims that Asgari was kidnapped by the Mossad and the CIA.
Meanwhile, Iran has asked Turkish officials to investigate Asgari’s disappearance, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was quoted Monday as saying.
Mottaki said Iran was “taking all the necessary steps” to solve the case of the missing general.
“A director-general from the (foreign) ministry has traveled to Turkey (to follow up the case). We have asked Turkey to investigate Asgari’s case,” said Mottaki.
Begin Haaretz Article
Missing Iranian official may have information on airman Ron Arad
By Yoan Stern, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service
March 6, 2007
A former Iranian deputy defense minister whose reported disappearance in Turkey has sparked allegations of a Mossad and CIA-linked kidnapping is likely to possess information on missing Israel Air Force navigator Ron Arad, a British newspaper reported Monday.
Arad has been missing in action since a 1986 mission over Sidon, Lebanon.
According to The Daily Telegraph report, Iranian intelligence official Ali Reza Azkari, 63, is also likely to have intimate knowledge of Iran’s defense establishment and nuclear development program.
Azkari’s disappearance in Turkey sparked allegations of a Mossad and CIA-linked kidnapping, but Haaretz has learned that he may have defected.
Azkari served in the senior defense post under former defense minister General Ali Samahani. Israeli media have said that for many years, Azkari was the most senior Iranian intelligence official in Lebanon, with responsibility for Iran’s ties with Hezbollah.
Unnamed Arab diplomats have been quoted in Israeli media as charging that the Israeli Mossad and the Central Intelligence Agency kidnapped Azkari, who reportedly disappeared under mysterious circumstances from Istanbul, Turkey a month ago.
Israel Channel 10 television said late on Sunday that Azkari was kidnapped on February 7, after arriving in Istanbul from Damascus.
There has been no official Iranian statement on the reported affair.
According to one report, Azkari was to have stayed at a luxury hotel in the city, but disappeared before his planned arrival there. Another report held that he had checked into the hotel and was staying there at the time of his disappearance.
The second account said that he left the hotel at one point and never returned, his baggage still in his room.
Iran reportedly sent a delegation of defense officials to Turkey last week to investigate the incident. It has also been reported that Iran has asked Interpol to open an investigation into the disappearance.
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