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Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ [225r] (449/807)
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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The list is incomplete owing to the refusal of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
to furnish any information of this nature. The list is otherwise correct.
7. Hungarian Interests.
< It is reliably reported that Count Laszlo Almasy, a Hungarian subject,
explorer and airman, wishes to come to Iran to open a private flying school.
8 . German Interests.
(i) Reference Intelligence Summary No. 4 (current), paragraph 5. On the
27th February, 1940. his Excellency Herr von Stantz Ettel, the new German
Minister, was received in audience by His Imperial Majesty the Shah at the
Gulistan Palace and presented his letters of credence.
(ii) Berlin broadcasts in Persian are getting moi^e violent. The publication
in the Iranian press of the true facts about the sinking of the steamship
Aramestan (vide Intelligence Summary No. 3 (current), paragraph 5) caused a
flood of abuse in the broadcast of the 4th March.
(iii) Large quantities of goods, including cotton, wool, dried fruits and
lambskins, are being sent to Germany via Batum and the Black Sea. Meat on
hoof, fats and butter are also being collected in Khorasan, &c., and taken over
the Soviet frontier for despatch to Germany.
(iv) German business-men continue to tender for all contracts. The latest
tender is for the construction of ten factories, depots and refineries for the
Ministry of Mines which is stated to be in the neighbourhood of 10 million
reichsmarks.
(v) About eighty D.Cav. motor cars have been imported from Germany.
Twenty-eight of these have already been delivered at Bandar Pahlavi. One of
these cars has been presented to His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince. The
cars have been delivered without tyres.
(vi) Reference Intelligence Summary No. 4 (current), paragraph 5 . The
German Minister continues to harangue his compatriots about their duty to the
Fiihrer, &c. He has forbidden all Aryan Germans to have anything to do with
the numbers of German Jew refugees in Iran. Herr Alhardt, first secretary,
and Major von Geldern Crespandorff. military attache, recently visited their
nationals in Isfahan and Shiraz.
9. Italian Interests.
(i) Radio Roma is to broadcast a weekly talk in modern Persian everv
Monday evening commencing at 1905 hours (Tehran time) on the 19-4 metre
band.
(ii) Reference Intelligence Summary No. 4 (current), paragraph 4 (ii). Ala
Littoria Airways negotiations still continue.
(iii) As a result of the arrival of Herr Ettel, the German Minister, Italian
diplomats are being more careful to show at least outwardly their Axis friendship.
10. Trans-Caucasian Military A rea.
Unconfirmed, but persistent, reports state that German air force personnel,
anti-aircraft artillery gunners and other specialists have arrived in Baku and
other localities in the Trans-Caucasian military area.
The British Broadcasting Corporation also recently announced as uncon
firmed news the arrival of two German divisions in this area. This, coming as
it did from London, has caused increased anxiety amongst foreigners and
Persians alike.
11. The Gas Mask
Factory
An East India Company trading post.
.
Reference Intelligence Summary No. 23 of 1939, paragraph 7. Three
German experts have recently arrived from Germany for employment at the gas
mask
factory
An East India Company trading post.
at Wernak.
12. The Iranian Press.
Once again the Iranian press is showing gross partiality by the increased
publication of German news telegrams (Deutsches Nachrichten-Biiro).
Havas and Reuters telegrams, too, are often mutilated and cut before
publication.
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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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