مجموعة ١١٧/٢٨ "بلاد فارس. كرمان، يزد - (بندر عباس): ملخصات استخباراتية." [و‎‎٢‎٤‎٩] (٥١٧/٥٠٠)

A Confident!,
Karaan ^iary ^o*ll for tne
n nnth of ^ovemter I94_6_.
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714. Sir «Toim H.Le Kdu^etel, K.C.LwG., ^.C. f K.^.*nabassador,
acocmoanied by ^ady and Hias Xie .u
HngHes, Air Attache, and i~rs.Hughes, and IColbAel ?r.JB.^nepler,
director, iubiic delations -cureau, arrived in nerman by plane
Zahidan on the 11th and left for lehran entth©.
715* Lt.Colonel R.G-.Alban, O.h.J., Consul, ^rman
Bandar Abbas, left for Bandar Abbas on the 18th and returned on
the 29th*
Visit of h.I.h. he i>xiah .
716 # u.1.11. the Shah arrived in Aerraan by plane on the loth
at about 11 a.m. and left the same day for xehran at l.p.m. he J
was met at the landing ground by ^qai *eza ^ikmat, the ustandar, ^ar
-ti- All <^adar, tne cr.o.C*, Br .Auzaffar Baqai, the xoc-J. leaner Ox
rge - Iran Democrat Aarty. and certain other officials. He visited
the Ustandari, the Jami f Masjid and the Kerman Orphanage.
Persian Officials*
717 . Aqai Reza Hifcmat and Sartip Ali Qadar visited ham,
Zahidan aiil Khwash during the period under report in connection
with the coming elections. On the 26th the former left xo* iehran
by plane to receive instructions in connection v/ith the elections.
The Gr.O.C* left for Tehran on the 30th for the same purpose*
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718. On about the 10th some 9 aimed bandies are reported
to have held up a truck ccming from Bandar Abt*** 1 'al-i-^ohammad
Khani between Hajiabad and Aliabt.d and to have carried away several
bales of piecegoods, sugar and cash. The driver , s assistant was
shot dead*and of 4 gendarmes escorting the truck two lost their
rifles.
719 0 Ibrahim Shustari, the leader of the local Tudeh branch
left for Tehran on the 7th by plane to obtain instructions for the
coming elections and has not yet returned*
720* Reference para 656* Ahmad Sahib Ikhtiari, the younger
brother of Jawad Sahib Ikhtiari, returned to Kerman on the 6th but
has not so far been known to have resumed his previous Tudeh aeti-
-vities.
721. Ali Mohammad Zabeti, one of the worst elements of the
Tudeh *urty wno was arrested and sent to Tehran with four others
on the 16th July, returned to Kerman on the 13th. He called on
the 16th at the office of Sarhang Hormuz Givian, the Chief of
Police.Kennah, who refused to see him and ordered him out of his
office. Givian recommended to the b'st&ndar that Zabeti be remov-
-ed from Kerman and under the instructions of the latter Zabeti
left for Te.iran on the 30th.
722. Abu Talib Kuzaffari of the local Court of Justice
has been acting as the leader of the Tudeh since Shustari’s de-
-parture. At a Tudeh meeting of the 13th Kuzaffari referred jci
contemptuously to the Democrat Party and the Prime Minister,
and amongst many other things accused him of helping Certain
robbers of the Bouth 1 (meaning the leaders of the Tribal revolt).
claimed that the Tudeh had helped him materially to become
Prime minister and it was in the hands ot the -~xvu to remove him.
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