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Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ [272r] (543/807)
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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9. Japanese Interests.
Lieutenant-Colonel Kasou Murasawa, the new Japanese military and air
attache, has declined to pay the usual official calls on his British, French and
I urkish colleagues, or to have anything to do with them. This officer is reported
t° .have recently served in Mongolia and Manchukuo. He is extremely anti-
|British. On the voyage from Japan to Iran per steamship Chile Maru, Colonel
murasawa took great interest in all allied shipping seen, especially the Queen
Mary at Singapore. He was continually sending messages to Japan by wireless.
He openly stated that Japan would shortly occupy Indo-China and the Dutch
hast Indies and that an agreement with the Soviet over the China question was
about to be concluded. With regard to Iran he has instructions to negotiate the
sale of Japanese military aircraft up to 5 million yen. and, if successful, to
endeavour to obtain the r ight to start an aircraft
factory
An East India Company trading post.
in the Shiraz area.
10. Enemy Trade.
(i) Information received from Trebizond shows that the export of cotton to
Germany by that route is still proceeding. 350 tons having recently successfully
arrived at that port.
A large number of bales which have been lying at Babolsar for months
awaiting shipment have recently been despatched via Baku.
(ii) Tea is still being sent through the post to Ger many.
11. Ministry of Communications.
The budget of the Ministry of Communications is already exceeded by over
5 million rials and there are still four months of the financial year to follow.
Contractors on the roads and railways have not been paid for- the past two months
and many of their labourers are also in arrears.
12. U.K.C.C.
Messrs. A. M. Kininmonth and Birkle, representatives of the United
Kingdom Commercial Corporation, recently in Roumania, have arrived in Tehran
to see whether Anglo-Iranian trade can be increased with the object of increasing
British influence and of preventing as far as possible essential commodities from
reaching the enemy.
13. Obituary.
M. Hussein Key Ostavan (Military Attache’s Personalities No. 146 and
Foreign Office No. 109) died in Tehran on the 7th November.
H. J. UNDERWOOD,
Lieutenant-Colonel. Military Attache.
Tehran, November 28, 1940.
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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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- 1 file (401 folios)
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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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- Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’
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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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