Manouchehr Hashemi

General Manouchehr Hashemi was an Iranian spy for the Shah's SAVAK intelligence agency, who became head of its counter-espionage department (Dept VIII). After a regular career as an Army Infantry officer, he became one of SAVAK's longest-serving senior officers (serving from 1957 to 1979), he had previously been head of the provincial offices of SAVAK in the provinces of Fars and Khorasan. Excerpts from Hashemi's history of SAVAK were published in Payam-e Emrooz in 1988.

Hashemi played a minor role in the Iran-Contra Affair, introducing Theodore Shackley to Manucher Ghorbanifar and Hassan Karroubi (brother of Mehdi Karroubi).