Trident

Iran/Israel/Turkey liaison organisation 1958-1979

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Trident was a trilateral intelligence organisation in the Middle East, linking Israel's Mossad, Turkey's National Security Service and pre-revolutionary Iran's National Organisation for Intelligence and Security (Savak). Its existence was revealed in a CIA document uncovered during the Iranian Revolution.¹