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Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ [233r] (465/807)
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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7. Iraqi Interests.
The Iraqi Government are negotiating with the Imperial Government for
the use of the road from Mosul and Rowanduz to Tabriz by an Iraqi motor
transport concern. The point at issue is the question of whether Iraqi drivers
should he allowed to enter Iran with their cars and vice versa.
^ M. Luigi Pennachio, second secretary of the Italian Legation, has asked the
Iraqi Charge d’Affaires whether the rumour of a transport route between these
towns was correct, as it would seriously compete with the Italian sea route from
Trieste to Bandar Shahpur! It seems most probable that the Italians were
seeking military information for the Germans, who would naturally wish to know
whether a road was to be brought into use by which Allied troops could reach
Tabriz quickly.
M. Pennachio has been for many years in the Middle East and once was at <
the Italian Legation in Kabul.
8 German Interests.
(i) The German Minister has lately been visiting in alphabetical order all
German business houses and offices in Tehran. He has issued orders that all
German nationals in Iran must be properly organised into groups of ten under
a leader : ten groups to be under the orders of a chief, and the whole to be under
the command of the “ Gauleiter,” Herr Krauter, an attache at the German
Legation.
The German Legation has, it is said, rented a large park at Shimran with
two swimming pools. Germans will be detailed to take part in physical training,
&c., twice weekly in this park. Their group leaders are to be responsible for
their regular attendance. A number of Germans have been obliged to take riding
lessons at the former Lessman riding school.
(ii) The Germans are meeting with obstruction and difficulties from the
Russians in their exportation from Iran of cotton and wool. Soviet ships are
still returning in ballast to Baku. The Russians are pretending that there is
serious congestion at the ports of Batum and Baku. The same thing is happening
on the Julf-Tiflis-Batum route.
(iii) A pro-Ally Belgian subject M. Embrechts, wireless expert and chief
representative of Messrs. Standard Telephone Company, Antwerp, reports that
the chief German wireless operator at the German Legation, Herr Heuss, recently
asked him for information as to how daily weather reports could be procured for
Iran and Iraq. Apparently the German Legation has been ordered to supply
such reports without fail. The German operators can easily obtain the weather
reports signalled to British, &c., aircraft flying to India but are in difficulties
about Iraq and Iran. Iraqi weather reports are usually received three days late,
presumably obtained from the Italians.
The Italian Naval and Air Attache recently also enquired from the British
Military Attache whether there was any Iranian meteorological service.
(iv) Many Iranian police officials are reputed to be in the pay of the Germans
as well as influential officials in the Censorship Bureau.
(v) The following changes have taken place recently among the German
instructors at the Iranian technical schools in the provinces.
Herr Wulfi, head of the technical school at Isfahan, to Tabriz.
Herr Kraemer from Tabriz to Shiraz and Herr Ettel Gnadt, an
ex-German air force officer, to Isfahan.
9 . Turkish Interests.
The accountant-general of the Turkish Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
M. Abdul Kadir, has lately visited Tehran in connexion with the formal taking
over of the new Turkish Embassy buildings. He has openly stated that he
personally has formed a bad impression of the present attitude of Iran towards
Turkey, especially since the conclusion of the Irano-Soviet Commercial Treaty.
M. Abdul Kadir stated also that in his opinion Iran had by this done an act
of cowardice behind Turkey’s back and should not now be considered well disposed
to the Allies. It is interesting to note that on the 15th April an effusive article
appeared in the official IttUaat newspaper praising the eternal union and
brotherhood of the Imperial Government and that of Turkey, and asserting that
these two countries would aid each other in the face of every eventuality.
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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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