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Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ [51v] (102/807)
The record is made up of 1 file (401 folios). It was created in 11 Feb 1937-29 Jul 1942. It was written in English. 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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Should this assumption prove incorrect the effects of this order may be far
reaching and produce an almost complete control of all superior employment by
the Iranian police. An obvious deduction is that all non-Gove rnment
“ institutions ” (in which, presumably, firms are included) will, in future, have
to be content with either the leavings of the Iranian clerical market or else with
official spies in the form of police nominees. I
7. Treaties.
According to a Havas
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
report from Mexico the text of a treaty of
friendship between Iran and Mexico was published in Mexico on the
4th November.
8 . Civil Aviation.
(i) According to an Iranian press report a sum of 40,000 rials (£500) has
been allotted for the repair of the aerodrome at Bushire.
(ii) Work is to begin shortly on the levelling and draining of the civil
aerodrome at Kermanshah at a cost of 840,000 rials (about £10,500). It is
possible that the proposal for the German Far East Air Service has been the
cause of this, as for the renovation of the W/T station referred to in paragraph 9.
9. Wireless Telegraphy.
(i) According to an Iranian press report the station at Bushire started to
function with effect from the 27th October.
(ii) An unconfirmed report states that the military W/T station at
Kermanshah, for some years now out of use, has recently been put in working
order and is now equipped with long and short wave sending and receiving sets
enabling it also to communicate with aircraft.
10. Iranian Navy.
Provided that the details as to salary and other conditions of service are
satisfactorily settled, His Majesty’s Government is prepared to agree to the
Iranian Government’s. request for the loan of the services of a meteorological
expert to advise them on sudh. matters and to instruct Iranian naval officers in
meteorological duties and marine surveykig.^.
11. Iranian Air Force.
A Meshed source reports that two Iranian air force officers deserted recently
by taking a service machine and flying in it over the Russian frontier.
12. The French Military Mission.
General de Division Gendre, the head of the French Military Mission (who
has been accorded the local rank of Sipahbad (Corps Commander) in the Iranian
army), accompanied by some members of the mission, arrived in Kerman on the
10th October. After visiting Bam the party proceeded to Bandar Abbas and,
embarking on the Iranian naval sloop Babr, visited Lingah and some of the
islands. The party returned to Bandar Abbas on the 17th October and left for
I Khorramshahr via Kerman, Sirjan and Shiraz. It is said that General Gendre
showed much interest in Henjan and declared it to be the most suitable place in
the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
for an Iranian naval base.
G. D. PYBUS, Lieutenant-Colonel,
Military Attache.
Tehran, November 20, 1937. /*/
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Copies of intelligence summaries compiled on a fortnightly basis by the Military Attaché at the British Legation in Tehran (Gilbert Douglas Pybus, Herbert John Underwood, William A K Fraser), 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. Many of the summaries are preceded by cover sheets and 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. notes sheets, the latter frequently containing handwritten notes giving a précis of the summary’s contents. The summaries cover a broad range of information, including: the activities of the Shah of Iran, Reza Shah Pahlavi, the Crown Prince, and other members of the royal family; activities of the Iranian Government and its officials; activities, organisation and strength of the Iranian army and Iranian air force; communications and transport, including wireless radio, and civil aviation routes into and out of Iran; British interests in Iran, including oil companies, specifically the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company; foreign interests in Iran; the Iranian press, focussing specifically on its criticism of foreign press and actions; commercial activities in Iran, including mining and factory An East India Company trading post. production; tribal matters, including those in the Bahmai and Baluchistan provinces, and the Qashqai; place name changes in Iran. Proceedings prior to and during the Second World War are also covered in the summaries. These include: German activity in Iran (commercial, political, propaganda, Nazi organisation); movements of peoples; public opinion in Iran in response to events in Europe in 1940; the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in August 1941; the abdication of Reza Shah Pahlavi; public opinion in Iran in the wake of the Anglo-Soviet invasion and occupation; social unrest and anti-British feeling.
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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 inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 403; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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