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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [259r] (517/749)
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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Sir R. Bullard to Mr. Eden.—(Received 5th March.)
(No. 49.) ; ...
HIS Majesty’s representative presents his compliments to His Majesty’s
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and has the honour to transmit
herewith copy of Intelligence Summary No. 7 for the period the 12th to
18th February, 1945, compiled by the military attach^ to this legation.
[E 1516/70/34]
Copy No. i
Tehran, l§th February, 1945.
Enclosure.
Military Attache's Intelligence Summary No. 7 for the Period
\2th-\%th February, 1945.
(Secret.) — + ——
Political. Persian Affairs -
THE Tudeh party’s activities in the provinces have been much in the news
recently. In Yazd the anti-Tudeh party of Dr. Tahiri sacked and burnt the
Tudeh headquarters, attacked the Tudeh leaders and chased them out of the
town. The instigator. of the strikes referred to in paragraph 10 of last
Intelligence Summary, Abbas Ustadan, escaped from the first affray but was later
caught and wounded. In Azerbaijan, as a result of the recent Tudeh conference,
a Tudeh recruiting drive has started among the townsfolk of Tabriz, the peasants
and the Kurdish tribes. The enthusiasm of the latter for the Tudeh cause has
probably been much exaggerated by the wealthy burghers, who fear for their
property and skins. It is unlikely that the Kurds have any affinity with the
Tudeh’s Russian masters. In a separationist movement culminating, possibly,
in the formation of an Azerbaijan Soviet republic the Kurds would hold no
favoured place, but they would stand to benefit, temporarily, in a state of chaos
between the withdrawal of Russian troops and the reassertion of Persian
Government authority—a period during which they could indulge in their
predatory habits to the full. The Shakkaq tribe has been the main recipient for
Tudeh propaganda and is under the leadership of Taha Agha, son of the
notorious rebel Simko, who was killed at Ushnu in 1930. In Hamadan the party
has shown more activity of late, and, though Hamadan is not an industrial centre,
a number of artisans recently thrown out of employment there by the diminution
of Allied Aid-to-Russia activities may present a worth-while target. In Isfahan
strikes and street-fighting continue and Persian troops were recently called out
in aid of the civil power. To offset these provincial activities, an unconfirmed
report states that Tudeh membership in the capital has declined from 15.000 to
1,000 and that the weekly meetings are attended by only 150 as against the
average of 500 of some months ago. The reason for this falling off is said to be
the Russian-escorted Tudeh demonstrations of October last, as a result of which
it became manifest to all Persians that the Tudeh was no longer (if ever it had
been) a genuine Persian labour movement but a Russian-controlled political
movement.
The Majlis.
2. A press report gives the strength of the various Majlis groups as
follows :—
Ittihad-i-Milli (National Unionists) ...
30
Democrats
8
Azadi (Freedom Front)
11
Independents
16
Tudeh (Labour)
8
Mihan (Fatherland)
23
Ungrouped
31
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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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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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