The Special Intelligence Bureau of Iran or, in Persian daftar-dar, allowed Fardoust to be the ultimate holder of raw intel and provider of reports to the Shah.

In Paris, Fardoust turned to an Iranian carpet dealer named Saberi and asked him to lend him money to finance his stay in France.

Some of the most important Iranian army generals worked for some time under the leadership of Hossein Fardoust at "Imperial Inspectorate Organization", including General Abbas Gharabaghi, who in January 1979 was appointed the chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces by the Shah, when the monarch was forced to leave Iran (January 16), and which contributed to the success of the revolution with its decision not to support the government approved by the Shah, prime minister Shapour Bakhtiar.

Fardoust obviously used the last few years of his tenure to establish close ties with those generals of the Iranian armed forces who criticized the Shah and played a decisive role in the first stage of the Islamic revolution in the decomposition of the old power structures of the monarchy.

[7] Some authors note that Fardoust played an important role in the return of Ayatollah Khomeini from exile and in driving the Shah’s military and security personnel to the side of the revolutionaries.

According to the most common information, Fardoust actively cooperated with the Islamic regime,[11] founded and until 1985 was the head of SAVAMA, the new security organization and secret police, which became the successor of SAVAK.

In the interview he claimed 10,000 full-time investigators were needed by the Special Intelligence Bureau just to keep track of the money-grabbers and plunderers in the Shah's elite.

[17] Three years after his death a newspaper run by the government, Kayhan-e Hava'i, ran a series of articles in both Persian and English of what were purported to be Fardoust's more detailed memoirs.

The two-volume set contained the controversial memoirs of General Hussein Fardoost, the head of Mohammad Reza Shah's secret service.

Hussein Fardoust, did not remain for very long at the head of SAVAMA: in December 1985, he was accused of being a Soviet agent who was duly paid by the KGB and was stripped of his duties.