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Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ [263r] (525/807)
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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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF llIS BRITA1 NIC MjiK^EBTY S GOVERNMENT
PERSIA.
With the Compliments
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for Foreign Affairs
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Sir R. Bullard to Viscount Hcdifoa. — (Received. November 28.)
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(No. 226. Secret.) ^ ^
HIS Majesty’s representative presents his compliments to His Majeslps^
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and has the honour to transmit i
herewith a copy of Intelligence Summary No. 21 for the period ending the
19th October, 1940, compiled by the military attache to this legation. f ^
Tehran, October 19, 1940.
Enclosure.
(Secret.)
Intelligence Summary No. 21 for the Period, ending October 19, 1940.
(1) The Shah and the Imperial Family.
H.I.M. the Shah and the Imperial Family continue in residence at the
Imperial Palaces in Tehran.
On the 11th October T.I.H. the Crown Prince and Princess attended the
Third Autumn Race Meeting at Jalalieh Race-Course.
The Shah has acquired for a nominal sum a large area of private house
property in Tajrish (suburb of Tehran), where he intends constructing modern
villas.
(^) Iranian Officials.
(i) M. Nayereddine Pirzadeh has been appointed Director-General of the
Ministry of the Interior.
(ii) M. Hassan Farzaneh (Foreign Office Personalities, No. 80), ex-Governor
of Bushire, has been appointed Ustandar (Governor) of Mazanderan.
(3) Iranian Air Force.
(i) On the 9th October a Hawker “ Hind aircraft crashed in front of
H.I.M. the Shah at the Qila Murgha aerodrome. Both occupants (Captains
Mashayekhi and Jehan) were killed.
(ii) The two hangars under construction by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
have now been completed. A third has also been erected, this making four in all.
(4) British Interests.
(i) Reference Intelligence Summary No. 20 (current), paragraph 6 (i).
Agreement between His Majesty’s Government and the Imperial Government for
the immediate conversion of £1 million into gold has been reached. The Imperial
Government, while denying that delay had been due to inaction on their part, have
expressed their gratitude that their requirements in this matter have been met.
Although the agreement was only reached after the expiry of the Imperial
Government’s ultimatum, nothing further was heard of upsetting the recently
concluded agreement with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. . .
(ii) Lieutenant-Colonel H. J. UndeiSvood, British Military Attache, visited
Bagdad (Iraq) on liaison duty from the 8th to 16th October.
(5) German Interests.
(i) Herr Ettel, the German Minister, visited Tabriz from the 12th to
16th September He addressed the local German community on two occasions,
first in the Azerbaijan Club, which had been hired for the occasion, and later at
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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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