An infiltrator in the House of Ayatollah

In the article of “An infiltrator in the House of Ayatollah”, the reader gets familiar with the life and struggles of Ayatollah Kashani who has and effective role in Iranian contemporary history during his 6 decades of struggle through SAVAK documents about him. The documents used in this article are published before in 2000 in a 2-volume book which includes 500 documents gathered by Markaz-a Barrassi Asnad-e Tarikhi (Center for Surveying Historical Documents). These documents include written communications and reports of Provincial Administrations, the Police, Army Staff, G2, SAVAK and … about the activities of Ayatollah Kashani. This unique documentary collection is gathered by SAVAK Archive. Some of them are the reports of interrogations, pursuit and watches, telephone eavesdropping, and information sources. However, these documents only cover one part of Ayatollah Kashani’s struggles. So the methodology used by the author in this article is focused on Ayatollah Kashani’s life and his political interactions with four other active elements, i.e. Shah and governments, nationalists and Mossadegh government, Islamists, Marxists and Tudeh party. The author has tried to represent an exact view of Ayatollah Kashani’s positions for the readers. The reports which this article is focused on are mostly the ones written by a especial infiltrator inside Ayatollah’s house for the security officials. Although it is not possible to reveal all the aspects of social and political life of ayatollah Kashani, but there are many unknown angles of his life that now can be represented in a documented way to all the interested people in contemporary history.