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A Time to Betray. The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran. By Reza Kahlili. New York: Threshold Editions, Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2010. 340 pp. $26.
A Time to Betray is the purported life story of Kahlili, a young Iranian computer engineer who left the United States and returned to Iran on the eve of the 1979 revolution to join the nascent Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). Eventually disillusioned by the horrors of revolutionary Iran, Kahlili initiated cooperation with the CIA during a subsequent visit to the United States. With the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1988, Kahlili returned to the United States with his family, ending his CIA tenure after less than...