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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [257v] (514/749)
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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Gendarmerie.
6. The headquarters of the Mekran Gendarmerie district has been trans
ferred from Iranshahr to Zahidan.
7. Fifty Ismailzais have been recruited into the Mekran gendarmerie.
A hundred Bakhtiaris were enlisted in 1944 (see Intelligence Summary No. 42/44,
paragraph 11), and Colonel Schwarzkopf has intentions of accepting Qashgai
and, eventually, other tribesmen.
Economic.
8. The Cabinet has received the report of the special commission set up to
advise on the reorganisation of Persia’s economic administrations. A Bill
embodying the commission’s recommendations is to be presented to the Majlis
at once.
9. The Minister of Finance has tabled a Bill to provide for the payment of
the final two-twelfths of the budget to cover the period the 21st January to the
21st March.
Industrial.
10. Strikes have been reported from Isfahan, Ahwaz and Yezd. In most
cases the owners were prepared to grant benefits in the form of shorter hours and
better hygienic facilities, but were not prepared to raise existing wages.
Educational.
11. The first group of eleven Iranian students selected to study at Indian
universities will leave Tehran shortly. Four will complete their training at
Lyallpur Agricultural College (Punjab) and two at the Rangers College,
Dehra Dun, for forestry. Three of the group will take a course of high
engineering at Delhi University, while the remainder will study in the Textile
Department of Delhi University. The entire cost will be borne by the Government
of India.
Internal Security.
Bakktiari.
12. Morteza Quli Khan has not yet obeyed the summons to come to the
capital to discuss the proposed operations against the Bahmai and Tayebi. His
excuse is that his absence from the garmsir will adversely affect security as he
has under his eye in that area all the leading kedkhudas having permitted none
to remain in Isfahan during the winter.
The death is reported of
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Bakhtiar, son of the late
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Jang.
Ears.
13. Muhammed Hussein Qashgai is still in Tehran and his brother Khosro
has also arrived. They have been advised that it is high time that Nasir Khan
clarified his equivocal position and met His Imperial Highness the Shah. The
added importance of this was stressed in view of Nasir Khan’s often expressed
desire to take his son abroad.
French Interests.
14. The contract of M. Godard, Director of Archaeology and sometime head
of the Free French delegation, has been renewed.
Russian Interests.
15. Lieutenant-General Yamuskevitch, Chief of Staff to General
Sovietnikoff, has been killed in an aeroplane crash.
16. The following is the latest list of Soviet generals in Persia :—
Kazvin—
Lieutenant-General Sovietnikoff, Commander-in-chief.
Major-General Gaidukov, Second in command.
Major-General Russov, Staff.
Major-General Dannilov, Chief of anti-aircraft troops.
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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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