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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [155r] (309/749)
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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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS ^RITANNIC MAJESTY S GOVERNMENT ^
of t - I 1944
Under Sect- ' ;,f
for Forei^^ Aii^aire
SECRET.
[E 422/422/34]
7 FEB
Copy No.
SVr R. Bullard to Mr. Eden.-—(Received 19f// January)
(No. 1 .)
HIS Majesty s representative presents his compliments to His Majesty’s
Principal Secretary of State for f oreign Affairs, and has the honour to transmit
herewith a copy of Intelligence Summary No. 1 for the period of the
20 th December, 1943, to the 2 nd January, 1944. compiled by the military attache
to this legation.
Tehran, 3rd January, 1944.
Enclosure.
Military Attaches Intelligence Summary Xo. 1 for the Period 20/7/ December,
1943. to 2nd January, 1944.
(Secret.)
Persian Affairs.
Political.
1 . 1 he appointment of the new Cabinet has been on the whole received with
apathy in the country, and the general expectation seems to be that it will not
last long after the opening of the new Parliament. That has been announced
for the 22nd January. The results of the Tehran elections should soon be
available as voting has closed. In Azerbaijan voting has been suspended owing
to the strong interference of the Soviet authorities on behalf of candidates of
the Tudeh party.
2. Dr. Penes arrived in Tehran from Moscow on the 28th December for
a short visit, during which he was the guest of the Shah. Both the Shah and
the Government laid themselves out to demonstrate how admirably they could
entertain^ an important State guest. The University of Tehran conferred on
Dr. Penes the degree of Doctor honoris causa.
3. There is some unrest among manual workers in Tehran. There were
threatened strikes of railway workers and of employees in the wireless station
of the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs and an actual strike in the ammunition
factory
An East India Company trading post.
at Sultanabad near Tehran. In all cases the cause of the discontent
was alleged to be insufficiency of pay. Conditions of the working classes are
generally sufficiently bad to make easy the work of the agitator. That agitators
are at work there is no doubt, nor that the long-suffering Persian working classes
are being awakened to a knowledge of their power. The Minister of Finance
and Dr. Millspaugh have issued a communique informing the workers that a
commission has been formed to investigate and report on the pay of manual
workers in Government employ.
4. There is no longer any doubt that the Tudeh party is directly supported
by the Soviet authorities. The mere fact that it had achieved the distinction,
unique in Persia, of having existed for over a year as an organised and disciplined
party with a consistent programme was sufficient to arouse suspicions that it was
being held together and directed by outside influence, and during the elections
Russian support of Tudeh candidates has been unconcealed.
5. The statement alleged to have been made by Mr. Roosevelt on his return
to the United States to the effect that Marshal Stalin had informed him that
there were 100 German agents in Tehran during the conference and that a plot
to murder the three statesmen had been discovered, called forth a denial in the
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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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- Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’
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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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