This book is a sham autobiography of Iranian poet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolqasem_Lahouti" class="extiw" title="w:Abolqasem Lahouti">Abolqasem Lahouti</a>, prepared and distributed by the Central Intelligence Agency through its TPBEDAMN operation. This work is an example of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/black_propaganda" class="extiw" title="w:black propaganda">black propaganda</a> and was aimed at discreting the Soviet Union by a fake portrayal of Lahouti's life there (where he had lived since 1922). American author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_J._Gasiorowski" class="extiw" title="w:Mark J. Gasiorowski">Mark J. Gasiorowski</a> says this book was written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Wilber" class="extiw" title="w:Donald Wilber">Donald Wilber</a> based on a confidential interview on 3 September 1983 with a retired CIA officer who worked on TPBEDAMN at the time (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/26924362">Source</a>) while others like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdollah_Shahbazi" class="extiw" title="w:Abdollah Shahbazi">Abdollah Shahbazi</a> attribute it to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapoor_Reporter" class="extiw" title="w:Shapoor Reporter">Shapoor Reporter</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.noormags.ir/view/fa/articlepage/21918/185/text">Source</a>) or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fa:%D8%B9%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85" class="extiw" title="w:fa:علی جواهرکلام">Ali Javaherkalam</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cgie.org.ir/fa/news/179905/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86-%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%87%D8%A7-%D9%85%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B5%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%86-%D9%85%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%85-%D8%AF%D8%B1--%DA%AF%D9%81%D8%AA%E2%80%8C%D9%88%DA%AF%D9%88-%D8%A8%D8%A7-%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AF-%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85">Source</a>).
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