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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [147v] (294/749)
The record is made up of 1 file (373 folios). It was created in 9 Jul 1942-8 Feb 1946. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Kerman.
7. Hussein Buchakchi has met the General Officer Commanding Kerman
Division and has agreed to surrender the arms recently looted by his followers.
Dashti.
8 . Operations against Ali Ismail were begun on the 11 th November, when
a force of one company was landed from H.M.S. Seabelle at Daiyir. The force
landed at dawn and captured the town after slight opposition. Owing to leakage
of information, Ali Ismail had fled the day before. A second force of two lorrv-
/ n/ borne infantry companies has also started from Bushire.
Fars.
9. Khosrow Qashgai has been notified by telegram from the Minister of
the Interior of his appointment as Governor of Firuzabad.
Kuhigalu and Bakhtiari.
10 . Reference Intelligence Summary No. 44/43, paragraph 15, the northern
column is to consist of one regiment of infantry and a contingent of about
500 Bakhtiari horsemen under Jehanshah s/o Morteza Quli Khan.
Two regiments of infantry are to move to Arak by road and thence by r rail
to Ahwaz where they will be joined by a third regiment and form the southern
column, which is to move northward to disarm first the Bahmai and then the
Taiyyibi. It is not thought that the Boir Ahmedi will come to the assistance of
either of these two tribes but a regiment of infantry is to remain at Behbehan to
deal with any uprising on their part. Sartip Qadr" General Officer Commanding
Isfahan Division, is to be in command of the operations.
A ^ointments — Clcil.
11 . (i) Allyar Saleh (F.O. 184—M.A. 243) to be Persian Trade representative
in India with headquarters at Bombay. His first task is to arrange for the
purchase and shipment of tea and textiles.
(ii) Abul Fazl Shahrukhi, Director of the Statistical Section of the
Ministry for Foreign Affairs, to be Counsellor in the Persian Embassy at Moscow.
Polish Affairs.
12. The number of Poles in Persia on the 4th November, 1943, was
Men.
Women.
Children.
T ottd.
In Tehran ...
Isfahan
Ahwaz ...
.. 1,114
80
361
4,269
552
1,128
1,865
1,559
668
7.248
2,191
2,157
Total
.. 1,555
5,949
4,092
11,596
Tehran, \hth November, 1943.
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Copies of intelligence summaries prepared on a weekly basis by the Military Attaché at the British Legation in Tehran, and received by the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. via the Foreign Office. The file’s contents follow on chronologically from Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3503). The summaries cover a broad range of information relating to wartime conditions in Iran: the activities of the Iranian government, including political instabilities, the resignation and appointment of governments and government ministers; the financial situation in Iran, including the reappointment in 1942 and subsequent economic policies of Arthur Chester Millspaugh, who was recruited to organise the government’s finances; internal security in Iran, including increasing political unrest in the north of the country (specifically in Azerbaijan) brought about by a growing Soviet presence, wartime propaganda, and the activities of the Tudeh Party of Iran; concerns over wheat production and supply, including reports of food shortages and famine conditions in 1942/43; the Iran military, including its movements, activities and appointments; foreign interests (primarily USA, British, and Soviet); reports of the numbers of Polish refugees in camps in Tehran, Isfahan and Ahwaz [Ahvāz].
The file contains a single item in French, being a copy of the declaration of the Congrès National d’Azerbaidjan (Nation Congress of Azerbaijan, f 359).
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- 1 file (373 folios)
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The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 375; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- front, front-i, 2r:52v, 54r:104v, 106r:110v, 112r:192r, 193r:241v, 242v:261v, 262v:273r, 275r:339v, 341r:358v, 360r:360v, 362r:363r, 365r:369v, 370v:371r, 372v:374v, back
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