United States Den of Spies Documents

“Den of Spies Documents” was the name given by Muslim Student Followers of the Imam’s Line to a collection of documents and evidence that were found in the American Embassy in Tehran after it was seized on November 4, 1979. Most of them included information about the political-economic-military situation and in general, the internal affairs of Iran and other countries of the region, and they could be a good reason to prove the United States’ interference in Iran and the countries of the region.

Although ​​as soon as the staff of the Embassy felt the danger they used strip-cut paper shredders to reduce paper pages and documents to strips based on their level of classification, yet after the seizure of the embassy, ​​the students were able to find many of the remaining documents and a group of them also volunteered to recover the shredded items. With extraordinary patience and perseverance, they separated the thin strands of paper according to the colour and material of the paper or the size of the letters, and then by putting them together, they recovered important documents, some of which were published in the daily press or the form of pamphlets.

In the following years, these documents were published in Persian and English in 74 volumes. Each of these books contains documents about a single topic, such as analyzing the social, political, military, and economic conditions of Iran in different years, information about active political groups, conversations with influential people about current issues and analyzing their opinions, examining the conditions of neighbouring countries like Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Soviet Union, Iraq and so on.

The Den of Spies Document books were among the most controversial and interesting books for a long time and played an important role in exposing American policies and the United States meddling in the countries of the region.

Reference: The Encyclopedia of the Islamic Revolution