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Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ [175r] (349/807)
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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6. British Officers.
(i) Squadron Leader V. Harris, B.Sc., Royal Air Force, left Tehran for
Habbaniya during the period under review on completion of four months’
language study duty in Iran. (See Intelligence Summary No. 4 (current),
paragraph 4.)
^ (ii) Squadron Leader C. E. de V. Lart, Headquarters, Royal Air Force,
^^jabbaniya, visited Tehran from the 5th to 13th June.
(iii) Major J. B. Cunningham, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, language
student, accompanied by his wife, left Tehran for India during the period under
review on completion of his studies. He is travelling via Bagdad, Basra and
Bombay.
7. Landing Grounds.
A consular report states that the landing ground at Zahedan has recently
been cleared and marked.
8. U.S.S.R. Interests.
Reference Intelligence Summary No. 3 (current), paragraph 13 (ii). The
Iranian trade delegation, headed by M. Sadiq Vassighi, Acting Minister of
Commerce, which left Tehran on the 5th January, has returned to the capital
without achieving anything. The Iranians state that M. Mikayan (an Armenian),
Soviet Minister of Commerce, made impossible demands for goods which for some
time have been solely exported to Germany. The Russians, on the other hand,
state that the Iranians were difficult over the matter of dealing only through
Iranian monopoly companies when they (the Russians) desired to purchase
unrestricted quantities in the open market.
9. German Interests.
(i) It is reliably reported that the Reich Government have formally asked the
Imperial Iranian Government’s permission to nominate a military attache in
Tehran in view of the increasing importance of the Iranian army and air force.
This appointment is not likely, however, to be made before April 1940. The
present German military attache, Colonel Rohde, resides in Angora and is
accredited also to Athens and Tehran.
(ii) A well-known German lady pilot, Mme. Elli Beinhorn, flying her own
machine, a Messerschmidt “Typhoon” four-seater with a cruising speed of
265 miles per hour, arrived in Tehran on the 13th June.
10. Hungarian and Yugoslav Interests.
Reference Intelligence Summary No. 14 of 1938, paragraph 7 (vi). The
Turkish Military Attache reports that a large number of heavy draught horses
purchased in Hungary and Yugoslavia are expected in Trebizond shortly.
11. Czech Interests.
The personnel of the former Czecho-Slovak Legation, including the Charge
d’Affaires, Dr. Vladimir Fric, have now left Tehran for Prague.
12. The Trans-Iranian Railway.
(i) The Garmsar-Semnan branch line of the Trans-Iranian Railway was
officially opened by his Excellency M. Mahmud Jam (Mudir-ul-Mulk), Prime
Minister, on the 16th June.
(ii) It is reliably reported that the alignment of the Tehran-Kazvin-Qotur
(Turkish frontier) section of the Trans-Iranian Railway will be approximately as
follows :—
Tehran (million sheet No. 9, square D 1).
Kazvin (million sheet No. 8, square C 4).
Zinjan (million sheet No. 8, square A 4).
Mianeh (million sheet No. 1, square D 3).
Maragheh (million sheet IS'o. 1, square C 3).
Mianduab (million sheet No. 1, square C 4).
Rezaieh (L T rumieh) (million sheet No. 1, square B 3).
Khoi (million sheet No. 1, square A 2).
Qotur (Kutur) (million sheet No. 1, square A 2).
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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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- front, front-i, 2r:113v, 115r:123v, 125r:139r, 140r:143v, 145r:148v, 150r:197r, 198v:243r, 244r:309v, 311r:348r, 349r:403v, back
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