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Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ [245r] (489/807)
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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HIS Majesty’s representative presents his compliments to His Majesty’s
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and has the honour to transmit
herewith a copy of Intelligence Summary No. 14 for the period ending the
13th July, compiled by the military attache to this legation.
Tehran, July 17, 1940.
Enclosure.
(Secret.)
Intelligence Summary No. 14 for the Period ending Jidy 13, 1940.
1 . The Shah and the Imperial Family.
HIS Imperial Majesty the Shah and the Imperial family are in residence
at Saadabad.
2. Iranian Officials.
(i) On the 3 rd- 4 th July M. Kai Khosrow Shahrokh, the Deputy for the
Zoroastrians of Iran, was found lying dead in a Tehran street. M. Shahrokh
was an ardent patriot, and had been president of the Zoroastrian Society for over
thirty years. Amongst other things, he was chief director of the telephone
company and was instrumental in starting the Majlis press. One of his sons,
Shahbahram Shahrokh, is the infamous Persian announcer of the Berlin radio.
Many attribute the death of Kai Khosrow Shahrokh to foul play, and connect it
with the personal attacks on the Shah which Radio Berlin had made in Persian
on the two preceding nights. German propagandists immediately stated that it
was an act of revenge by the English.
(ii) His Imperial Majesty the Shah has appointed M. Majid Ahi (Military
Attache’s Personalities, No. 6 ; Foreign Office Personalities, No. 9), a former
Minister of Communications, to be Minister of Justice.
(iii) The appointment of Musa Noury Isfandiary, mentioned in Intelligence
Summary No. 13 (current), paragraph 2 (iii), is confirmed.
3. Iranian Army.
(i) Intelligence Summary No. 10 (current), paragraph 4 (v), and Appendix A
to that summary, and all references to gendarmerie in the Order of Battle, 1940,
are cancelled and the following substituted :—
Gendarmerie .—The Iranian gendarmerie is organised (1) into regiments
whose duties are the policing of the roads and country districts; ( 2 ) independent
battalions whose duty is the guarding of the frontiers.
Each regiment or independent battalion has a special “ bureau ” for police
work, such as courts of investigation, &c.
A regiment of gendarmerie is not divided into battalions, but is composed
of 6 to 9 companies, each of which has nominally 1 company officer, 3 platoon
commanders, and 150 n.c.o.s and armed policemen, consisting of 1 platoon of
infantry and 2 platoons of cavalry. An independent battalion is composed of
4 to 6 companies.
The gendarmerie is armed solely with old pattern rifles of various makes:
Russian, French and even some English carbines, &c. They have not so far been
issued with automatic weapons of any sort. For discipline and administration
the force is under the supervision of the G.O.C. of the division in whose area
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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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- 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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