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Coll 30/204 ‘Persian Gulf Oil. Future of oil in its relation to the Middle East – Admiralty Memorandum on –’ [18r] (35/66)
The record is made up of 1 file (31 folios). It was created in 13 Dec 1940-27 Nov 1941. 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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Secret
11th December, 1940.
My dear Foreign secretary,
May I refer to telegram fio. 963 received
from orlppe on the &th November reporting that, according
to the Japanese Assistant Naval Attache (who stated that
he had uefinite confirmation from Berlin ana Bagdad)
German officers, dressed as civilians, had been passing
through Moscow en route to Iran? The Naval Attache had
asked whether they were to conduct Fifth column activities,
particularly against the oilfields.
H.M* Minister in Tehran was asked whether he
had any comment to make on this report, and in his telegram
No. 395 a of the 2&nd Noveznber, he reported that the informa
tion was correct. About eight German officers had recently
arrived and had taken up civil work. In a further telegram
No. 393 of the 21st November, sir R. Bullard gave some
further information on this matter to the effect that a
German emissary claiming to represent the former German
Minister at Bagdad had approached the Iraqi charge d-Affaires
bearing a proposal for the renewal of relations anu for the
division of Iraqi oil between Iraq, Germany and Italy after
the war. Abadan oil, he said, would go to Russia. h.M*
Minister indicated that he had learned from a very good
source that the emissary referred to was one of the German
officers whose intention to proceed to Iran and Iraq as
civilians was reported in Moscow telegram No. 963 already
referrea to. H.M. Minister added that the Iranian
Government assumed that the Germans Intended to abanaon
Iran to Russia, but they had no definite information.
In the case of Iran you are, I think, aware of
some of the difficulties which we have recently had from an
oil point of view with the ghah, when he threatened to cancel
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The file contains: a copy of an Admiralty memorandum, dated 11 October 1940, entitled ‘The Future of Oil in its Relation to the Middle East’; and correspondence related to the memorandum and to the arrival in Iran of eight German officers, who were suspected of being involved in activities against British interests, in particular against the Anglo-Iranian oilfields.
The correspondents are as follows: 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. ; the Petroleum Department; the Foreign Office; and the Colonial Office. 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. correspondence includes internal notes between 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. officials.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (31 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front 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 33, 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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- Title
- Coll 30/204 ‘Persian Gulf Oil. Future of oil in its relation to the Middle East – Admiralty Memorandum on –’
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- front, front-i, 2r:32v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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