Mek Organizational Profile

Mujahadeen-e-Khalq
(MEK): Organization Profile and Red Cell Analysis
Week Eight, Course Project

Student Name
8/26/2012

American Military University
HLSS 320

Contents
Part I - Organization Profile
Introduction: MEK Overview ......…………...........................................……………… 3
Origins, Ideology and Goals ..............................................................……………….... 3
Leadership, Funding and Capabilities ........................................................................... 5
Operating Bases, Support Bases, Strengths and TTPs ........…………………………... 6
Part II - Red Team Analysis
Why Use Red Team Analysis? ......................................................................................... 7
Restate Current MEK Goals ........................................................................................... 7
Key Assumptions Check ................................................................................................ 8
Data Collection Options .................................................................................................. 10
Use of the Intelligence Community ............................................................................... 12
Most Effective Intelligence Analysis Strategies
The United States and other western powers, as well as Israel, must carefully consider how to proceed with MEK relationships. The organization has shown a history of changing allies in order to advance its goals, making it predictable in the sense that they can be counted on to do whatever it takes to survive and take control of the Iranian government. To brush MEK aside may mean dealing with a nuclear armed Iran later, and to support MEK may mean dealing with a provoked Iran now. No matter the decision, each carries its own implications for U.S. foreign policy. Washington must ultimately decide between the lesser of two