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Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ [340r] (679/807)
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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17. Reference Summary No. 28, paragraph 24. The following are among
the Kurdish chiefs taken to Baku by the Russians :—
Qazi Muhammad,
Haji Baba Shukh,
Majid Qareh, j- All of Sauj Bulagh.
Ahmad Khan Begzadeh,
Amir Aian,
Qaraineh Agha, 1 Of the Manush tribe between Rezaieh and Sauj
Hamza Agha, J Bulagh.
Ibrahim Agha,
Ali Khan,
Bayazid Agha :
J- Of Manqur, near Sauj Bulagh.
said to be of a sub-tribe called Gaurah.
Muhammad Amin Agha : said to be of a sub-tribe called Piran
To these have also now been added some Shahsevan chiefs.
18. Reports from various sources agree that the behaviour of Russian troops
towards the poorer classes in the occupied areas is friendly and correct. This
merely adds to the anxiety of the upper classes of Persians regarding the effects
of Russian propaganda.
Turkish Interests.
19. The Turkish Military Attache professes some anxiety about the
Kurdish situation. The success of the Persian Kurds in freeing themselves of
Persian administration had disturbed the Kurds of Iraq and Turkey. Some
Kurdish chiefs who had fled from Turkey during the last Turkish operations
against the Kurds and had by agreement with the Persian Government been
interned in Central and Eastern Persia had been allowed to escape, and were
now back in Persian Kurdistan near the Turkish border. Whispers of an
independent Kurdish State were being heard in all Kurdish-inhabited
territory. Our policy of neutrality in the Kurdish rebellion against the Persian
Government could, he thought, only be interpreted as sympathy with the Kurds.
The Russians, he thought, were openly encouraging ideas of an independent
Kurdistan.
Hungarian and Bulgarian Interests.
20. The Swedish Legation in Tehran, which is responsible for these
interests in Tehran, is arranging for the repatriation of a number of Bulgarian
and Hungarian nationals.
American Interests.
21. An American irrigation expert, Professor Windsor, has arrived in
Tehran as an adviser to the Ministry of Agriculture.
22. Major Johnson, United States army, a member of the Wheeler Mission,
has arrived in Tehran.
Czech Interests.
23. A party of twenty-five Czech soldiers arrived in Tabriz saying they had
come from Syria, where they found life too peaceful, to fight Germans in Russia.
The Russian military authorities refused to allow them to go on, but have agreed
to send them to Tehran for despatch to Syria.
Tehran, December 8 , 1941.
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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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