Evaluating ACC

Anti-sabotage Common Committee was e new organization but so strong and terrible. My prison days there were not so long; however, I learned a lot and could be more familiar with fight techniques.

It was in ACC that I practically experienced the techniques of keeping secrets and information even from my cellmates. We would write some notes on the walls of toilets to warn others to keep their information; such as: “Dear palls! Take care one of each two people is a spy.” So, my cellmates did not tell anything precise about themselves and their activities. Prisoners did not know each other by name and would call each other by the number of their cells. For instance, they knew me as “No. 17”.

I felt closely the power and success of the clergy (e.g., Mr. Lahouti) even on merciless agents of SAVAK and ACC. I also felt and tasted the brutality and savageness of butchers like Manouchehri and Rasouli.

Later, I thought a lot about why I was arrested and kept there in ACC for about forty days with no reason; but alas. I just guess God wanted me to be imprisoned to nurse those two savagely tortured prisoners.