A Time to Betray: A Gripping True Spy Story of Betrayal, Fear and Courage

Reza Kahlili

Apr 2010 · Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

An exhilarating true story that reads like a spy thriller about a former CIA operative recruited out of Iran, while he served as a member of the secretive and highly feared Revolutionary Guards of Iran.

A TIME TO BETRAY

This exhilarating, award-winning memoir of a secret double life reveals the heart-wrenching story of a man who spied for the American government in the ranks of the notorious Revolutionary Guards of Iran, risking everything by betraying his homeland in order to save it.

Reza Kahlili grew up in Tehran surrounded by his close-knit family and friends. But the enlightened Iran of his youth vanished forever, as Reza discovered upon returning home from studying computer science in the United States, when the revolution of 1979 ushered in Ayatollah Khomeini’s dark age of religious fundamentalism. Clinging to the hope of a Persian Renaissance, Reza joined the Ayatollah’s elite Revolutionary Guards. As Khomeini’s tyrannies unfolded, as fellow countrymen turned on each other, and after the deeply personal horrors he witnessed firsthand inside Evin Prison, a shattered and disillusioned Reza returned to America to dangerously become “Wally,” a spy for the CIA.

In A Time to Betray, Reza not only relates his razor’s-edge, undercover existence from moment to heart-pounding moment as he supplies vital information from the Iran-Iraq War, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, the Iran-Contra affair, and more; he also documents a chain of incredible events that culminates in a nation’s fight for freedom that continues to this very day, making this a timely and vital perspective on the future of Iran and the fate of the world.

Ratings and reviews

I read this book 3 time and every time i underline the event that seems to me to be more HOLLYWOOD and fact. Like him, i was born and raised in Iran ( Tehran ) it seems that he lived in a make-to-story envirnoment. at the time there was WAR with Iraq. but i just remmembered that in order to get a "Green Card", you must protry yourself as anti Islam-Iran so the process goes faster. you also need to write boos ans speeches so the fools who run washington become true belivers. i , on the other hand, will check you stroy book and content for facts. hope you make 235000 at least

این کتاب بسیاری از وقایعی که شاید ندانید یا کم بدانید را شرح میدهد.حتمأ لازم نیست که از نویسنده و اعمالش راضی باشید ولی توصیه میکنم حتمأ بخوانید.

About the author

Reza Kahlili is a pseudonym to protect the author’s identity. Reza was born in Tehran, Iran, and served in the Revolutionary Guards and acted as a spy for the CIA. He now lives in California.