Memoirs of Fatemeh Pakravan (Harvard Iranian Oral History Series)

Harvard Iranian Oral History Project memoirs of the wife of General Hassan Pakravan, who was the head of Iranian intelligence during Khomeini's first uprising in 1963. He was executed by the Islamic Republic shortly after the 1979 revolution. It provides fascinating details of the workings of the elite during the reign of Mohammad-Reza Pahlavi.