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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [266v] (532/749)
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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6
Expenditure.
1. Ministry of Court and Special Office...
2. Upkeep of Koyal preserves, salaries, palaces’
expenses and repairs
3. Majlis
. 4. Prime Minister and Prime Minister’s Office
5. Radio Department and Pars Newsagency ...
X 6. Ministry of War
7. Ministry of War Requirements ex-United States ...
8. Ministry of the Interior
9. Gendarmerie
10. Police ..*
11. Statistics Department and civil status
12. Conscription Department
13. Ministry of Health
14. Pasteur Institute
15. Ministry of Justice
16. District Court Officials and Public Prosecutions ...
17. Criminal Court and Profiteers’ Court
18. Registration of Documents and Property ...
19. Fees to Owners of Notaries Public ...
20. Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Foreign
Representation
21. Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs
22. Ministry of Education
23. Students sent abroad ...
24. Endowments
25. University and Hospital Affairs Department
26. Ministry of Agriculture
27. Expenses incurred by the examination of skins and
the certification of meat in the slaughter houses...
28. Irrigation Department
29. Ministry of Commerce and Industry
30. Ministry of Communications ...
31. Railway Construction Department
32. Port Affairs Department
33. High Roads Department
34. Ministry of Finance, including Customs and the
Mint ...
35. Opium Monopolv Department
36. Tobacco Monopoly Department
37. Ceded Property and Public Domains Department ...
38. Pensions and upkeep of holy shrines ...
39. Red Lion and Sun Society Tabriz and Meshed ...
40. Welfare Institutions ...
41. Construction and preservation of slaughter houses
42. Government exploitation and undertakings
43. Capital for manufacture of weights
44. Construction of Government buildings
45. Interest on Treasury Bonds and debts, bank com
missions and instalment on National Bank Debt
46. Foreign debts ...
47. Debts of former Government companies to Agricul
tural Bank and Commercial Bank ...
48. Debts and undertakings
49. Salaries of Government representatives with
A.I.O.C
50. Salary and expenses of Government inspectors with
National Bank
51. Salaries of Government employees en disponibilite
52. Expenses of Government tribunals ...
53. Government credits and undertakings
54. Instalment on purchase of Washington Embassy
55. Transferred from 1323
1324.
Rials.
11.792.460
3,000,000
23,500.000
3,340,000
3,200,000
1 , 000 , 000,000
96,000.000
35.444,000
398,246,100
237.000,000
39,959,000
1,400,000
150,784,500
4,000,000
69,184,655
20,000
300,000
42,740,000
4,500,000
53.211.460
145,018,000
303,038,000
2,500,000
1 , 000,000
73,747,980
124,726,000
1,500,000
50,000,000
27,519,940
3,584,000
47,280,000
12 , 686,000
115,000,000
306,811,600
130,000,000
413,524,800
76,013,890
1,623,973
778,575
1,318,200
6 , 000,000
8 , 000,000
1,354,680
100 , 000,000
155,000,000
8,957,790
26,627,558
15,000,000
462,441
64,440
9,000,000
1 . 000,000
14,000,000
1,430,000
50,000,000
x
4,412,170,000
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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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