Khaiber Khan Goodarzian - RFK

[Greg Kooyman]

I've been recently re-reading Lisa Pease's work regarding the RFK assassination and had a quick question for the research community.. Does anyone know whatever became of Khaibar Khan Goodarzian? Is he still alive? Does anyone know of the New York Newspaper photograph circa 1964 that showed Khaibar Khan's daughter giving flowers to the Shah & his wife during their June 1964 visit to New York City? I know this is the JFK assassination forum but I didn't see a message board dedicated to the RFK assassination, so please excuse me for posting this here.

Thanks for any feedback you can give me.


Greg

[Magda Hassan]

Hi Greg, interesting question and I'm not sure either. Hope some one else here knows the answer. Lisa Pease is currently writing another book about RFK so I hope she might cover this in the new book. I think it is close to publication.

Edited to add a lot of the RFK info is on the Political Assassination board but there is quite a bit here in the JFK board as well.

[Tracy Riddle]

I've tried in the past to find out more about Khaiber Khan, but can find almost nothing on him. I think he could tell us a lot. I suspect he was a double agent for the Shah, who at that time was very close to Israel and the US (SAVAK = Mossad = CIA/Angleton). I believe it may have a lot to do with the reason a Palestinian was chosen as the patsy in the RFK assassination.

[Drew Phipps]

He apparently torched his fancy Fifth Avenue apartment for insurance money in 1961. The NY appeals courts were still litigating that case in 1968, when he was finally thrown out without a dime. At that point, he was apparently living in California and had an arrest record. It is said that he escorted Sirhan to RFK Headquarters (along with a number of other individuals) using a ficticious address.

It has been said that Goodarzian reported to Congress on bribes from the Shah to Rockefeller, Dulles, Luce, and three former ambassadors to Iran. Not the sort of spy the Shah would want on his team.

It has also been said that he was deported from the US shortly after 1968.

The picture to which you refer was entered as evidence in the LAPD case file on RFK as exhibit 70 (or possibly 71)

[Greg Kooyman]

I've tried in the past to find out more about Khaiber Khan, but can find almost nothing on him. I think he could tell us a lot. I suspect he was a double agent for the Shah, who at that time was very close to Israel and the US (SAVAK = Mossad = CIA/Angleton). I believe it may have a lot to do with the reason a Palestinian was chosen as the patsy in the RFK assassination.

Thanks for your feedback. Yes. Khaibar Khan actually went to Congress in 1963 to expose what he and his intelligence staff had uncovered concerning allegations that the Shah was skimming off large amounts of USAID money to Iran. His testimony and documentation revealed that U.S. aid money was being re-routed into Swiss bank accounts and also checks were being kicked back to none other than Allen Dulles and David Rockefeller, among others. .."In 1962, a scandal emerged linking the embezzlement of USAID funds with high profile individuals. Allegedly, USAID dollars had been funneled into the Pahlavi Foundation, the Shah's personal family fund, and used as bribe money towards Iranian, British, andAmerican dignitaries. Khaibar Goodarzian "Khan," a wealthy British educated Iranian businessman and exiled chief of a nomadic Iranian tribe, exposed this scheme; he was both a confidant to the Shah and aformer member of British military intelligence. Through an establishednetwork of spies in the Imperial Palace complex, Khan reportedlybroke into the Shah's office safe on February 16, 1962. There, he found the set checks from 1962, totaling $29 million, linked to the Shah'sbank account in Switzerland. The ten checks were to be distributedon behalf of the Pahlavi Foundation to members of the royal family as well as foreign personalities such as the American Ambassador to Iran Julius Holmes, CIA Director Allen Dulles, and financier David Rockefeller. With photostated checks, Khan testified before the McClellan Committee on Government Operations in 1963. "His [Khan's] photostated records were checked with Treasury records on the dates of aid payments to Iran and a comparison show that in repeated instances, multi-million-dollar checks to Iran were followed swiftly by multi million-dollar deposits in the account of the Pahlavi Foundation. Teams from the US General Accounting Office were sent to Iran to try to find the schools and hospitals for the buildings of which funds had been specifically allocated [fromJune 1952-June 1963]. The buildings simply didn't exist." It shouldcome to no surprise that while this investigation was under way, aid to Iran plummeted, from $53 million in USAID in 1962 to just $2.5 in 1965.83 The investigation continued until it was finally dropped in 1967; with continuous pressure from the State Department, Senator McClellan finally repudiated the allegations additionally discrediting and deporting Khan." I happen to believe Lisa Pease's assertion that Khan may have been used by US intelligence in monitoring RFK and may have been initially set up to be a patsy along with Sirhan Sirhan. I listened to the recent online interview that Lisa P. gave on NightFright. The subject of an individual (a New York detective?) sending LAPD/SUS a supposed picture of Khaibar Khan's daughter from a newspaper clipping piqued my interest again. I was hoping that I could find out the actual newspaper that posted the photo and possibly try to research their archives for that photograph. It would be interesting if we could get a picture of what Shirrin Khan looked like in 1968. I believe that there is a theory that Khan's daughter could have been the lady in the polka dot dress that night.

[Greg Kooyman]

He apparently torched his fancy Fifth Avenue apartment for insurance money in 1961. The NY appeals courts were still litigating that case in 1968, when he was finally thrown out without a dime. At that point, he was apparently living in California and had an arrest record. It is said that he escorted Sirhan to RFK Headquarters (along with a number of other individuals) using a ficticious address.

It has been said that Goodarzian reported to Congress on bribes from the Shah to Rockefeller, Dulles, Luce, and three former ambassadors to Iran. Not the sort of spy the Shah would want on his team.

It has also been said that he was deported from the US shortly after 1968.

The picture to which you refer was entered as evidence in the LAPD case file on RFK as exhibit 70 (or possibly 71)

Is that LAPD case file exhibit available on line anywhere? Possibly the Mary Ferrell website?

[Tom Bowden]

Not sure who if anyone has access to Ted Charach's files but he had several photos of Khan. I have some but they are in storage and difficult to get to at this time. They were used in the "new Second Gun", which was never released.

[Drew Phipps]

For some reason, an out of order and likely misplaced page on Goodarzian is located in the HCSA Security Classified file on JFK - Braden file...

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archiv...Id=1249302

Looks like 2400+ RFK photos were destroyed by LAPD. I'm guessing LAPD Exhibit 70 was one of those.