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The MOIS tried to use another infiltrator, Houshang Khosrowpour Bayat
to obtain information about the National Liberation Army needed to plan
terrorist attacks on the Mojahedin. Bayat came to Iraq in 1988 and
sought to join the NLA. He informed relevant NLA officials of all the
plots devised by the MOIS.
He eventually requested to be sent
abroad in 1993. The Mojahedin sent him to the Netherlands, where he
received political asylum.
In a letter to the Mojahed
weekly on August 11, 2002, Bayat has described his recruitment by the
MOIS and the plans to infiltrate and deliver blows to the PMOI and the
NLA. He wrote:
After June 20, 1981, I lost contact with
the PMOI due to the security precautions. In March 1985, after I had
stepped up my activities, I was arrested and taken to Evin Prison.
Fifteen agents were waiting for me where I worked. During interrogation
sessions, I was offered my freedom in exchange for collaboration with
the Intelligence Ministry. The MOIS suggested that I go abroad and
request to join the NLA, which I did. They specified three specific
tasks for me: collecting information on garrisons, weapons, travel
routine of officials, seeking out weak links, good targets for
bombings, and locations of meetings where the PMOI leadership is
present.
The PMOI had every right to deal with me, as
do other forces, organizations, parties or partisans when confronted
with a traitor. Yet, the PMOI displayed mercy and compassion. I saw in
the Mojahedin and its leadership a democratic attitude. It was in this
light that when after six years of being presence in the PMOI and the
NLA, I requested to be sent abroad, the Mojahedin arranged to my
departure to the Netherlands in just three months. No one raised any
voice of protest over my request. I again declare that I am willing to
testify in any court or before any relevant body about the Intelligence
Ministry’s plots…
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