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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [28r] (55/749)
The record is made up of 1 file (373 folios). It was created in 9 Jul 1942-8 Feb 1946. It was written in English and French. 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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regarding conditions in the Caucasus are evident. Tales are current, emanating,
it is reported, from Armenian soldiers who have been at the front, of hostility
between the different races who make up the armies of South Russia, of wholesale
desertions and of unrest among the peoples of the Caucasus. Tales of this sort
would in any case be spread about by Axis sympathisers, and they may have no
better foundation than that. In Tehran, Russian officials remain as friendly as
before, but here, too, depression and anxiety are sometimes noticeable.
t !3. For a time the Soviet officials in Tabriz appeared to be in some doubt
ether American supplies should continue to be despatched to the Caucasus, but
on the 13th August His Majesty’s Consul-General at Tabriz reported that his
American colleague, after a visit to Julfa, had ascertained that supplies were
being sent north again via Baku to Petrovsk and thence by a new road along the
Caspian shore to Astrakhan. The completion of this road lacks confirmation here.
The American Consul had formed the impression that the Russians might be
contemplating the possibility of having to.withdraw eastwards along the southern
shore of the Caspian. This possibility has been discussed by American officers for
some time.
14. Supplies for Russia via the Zahidan-Meshed route are now being
carried by U.K.C.C. lorries as far as Kuchan owing to shortage of Russian
transport. .
15. A Polish source recently arrived from Krasnovodak reported the
movement of horsed cavalry from Krasnovodak to Baku, and a further movement
of troops is reported from a South Caspian port in Persia to Baku.
16. M. Smirnoff, Soviet Ambassador in Tehran, has gone to Moscow on
leave.
Polish A if airs.
17. The evacuation of Poles from Russia has been in progress during the
past week. Up to the 14th August approximately 10,600 military and
7,400 civilian Poles had arrived in Pahlevi, General Anders has not yet arrived.
Tehran, August 18, 1942.
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Copies of intelligence summaries prepared on a weekly basis by the Military Attaché at the British Legation in Tehran, 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. The file’s contents follow on chronologically from Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3503). The summaries cover a broad range of information relating to wartime conditions in Iran: the activities of the Iranian government, including political instabilities, the resignation and appointment of governments and government ministers; the financial situation in Iran, including the reappointment in 1942 and subsequent economic policies of Arthur Chester Millspaugh, who was recruited to organise the government’s finances; internal security in Iran, including increasing political unrest in the north of the country (specifically in Azerbaijan) brought about by a growing Soviet presence, wartime propaganda, and the activities of the Tudeh Party of Iran; concerns over wheat production and supply, including reports of food shortages and famine conditions in 1942/43; the Iran military, including its movements, activities and appointments; foreign interests (primarily USA, British, and Soviet); reports of the numbers of Polish refugees in camps in Tehran, Isfahan and Ahwaz [Ahvāz].
The file contains a single item in French, being a copy of the declaration of the Congrès National d’Azerbaidjan (Nation Congress of Azerbaijan, f 359).
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- 1 file (373 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 front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 375; 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.
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- Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’
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- front, front-i, 2r:52v, 54r:104v, 106r:110v, 112r:192r, 193r:241v, 242v:261v, 262v:273r, 275r:339v, 341r:358v, 360r:360v, 362r:363r, 365r:369v, 370v:371r, 372v:374v, back
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