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Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ [321v] (642/807)
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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troops have caused considerable anxiety and have greatly increased the bitterness
of the resentment against the presence of troops.
30. Kelying on the verbal assurances of the Soviet Embassy, the Persian
authorities sent a small detachment of gendarmes to Kerej for the purpose of
arresting deserters running away by the Tehran-Kazvin road. On arrival at.^
Kerej the detachment was disarmed by Russian troops and sent back to Tehran.
31. Even unarmed gendarmerie posts in villages in the vicinity of Tehran
have been evicted by the Russians and told not to return.
Russian Policy.
32. Reference paragraph 25 of Summary No. 21 (current). The Russians
have now released the motor transport that was used to convey Germans and
Italians to the Turkish border.
33. His Majesty's Consul at Tabriz reports that the Russians are seizing
goods wholly paid for by Persian importers and exporting them to Russia.
Furniture from schools and Government offices is also being confiscated, and
1 there is reason to believe that this also is being taken to Russia.
34. The Soviet Embassy professes to regard as provocation the protests
made by the Persian Government about the various incidents reported in this
and previous summaries.
35. The transport of food-stufis from the occupied provinces is still being
obstructed by the Russians. The shortage of rice and charcoal, in particular, is
being felt in the capital.
36. The Military Governor of Tehran states that the Russian Military
iUtache, after impressing on him the need for secrecy, told him that it would be
very much to his advantage if he would watch and report on British activities, of
I which the Russians were very suspicious. It is probable that there is at least
; a basis of truth in this statement.
37. The Persian Minister for War, General Ahmed NaJkhchevan, states that
he was approached by a well-known Persian Communist in close touch with the
Russians with the suggestion that he should lead a revolution against the present
regime and become President of the Republic. He could count on Russian
support. There may be truth in this statement
Czech Interests.
38. Messrs. Skodas (Iran) (Limited), who were under the direction of
Herr Goring (one of the brothers of Field-Marshal Goring) at Prague, have
entirely severed their connexion with the protectorate and reorganised the firm in
Persia under the name of Societe Anonyme Iranienne Skoda. A neutral director ?
has been appointed (Captain Marius Jouvel, formerly Assistant French Military
Attache, and now one of the Free French Committee in Tehran) who replaces
the German director, Count Mensdorf Pouilly.
French Interests.
39. The French Military Attache, Commandant Alessandri, has handed
back the wireless transmitter-receiver which he took over from the Polish Secret
Service in 1939.
40. The French Military Attache’s staff has now been dismissed and
preparations are being made for the transfer of documents to the Ministry of
War at Vichy or their local destruction. Commandant Alessandri has handed 11
over to the British Legation his files and card index on Germans in Persia. M
41. Reference paragraph 27 of Intelligence Summary No. 21 (current).
Captain Florent left for Beirut by car accompanied by the following French
subjects, who are joining the Free French movement:—
Lieutenant de Melcharski, former French Air Force officer.
Sergeant Becher, wireless operator attached to French Military
Attache’s office.
M. Laporte, French Intelligence Service; an expert on the Caucasus.
Captain Florent's visit to Tehran has been very successful.
Tehran, October 8 , 1941.
W. A. K. FRASER, Colonel,
Military A ttache.
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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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