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Ext 6552/41 ‘Security Organisation in Persia’ [3r] (5/320)
The record is made up of 1 file (158 folios). It was created in 14 Oct 1941-30 Oct 1943. 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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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’* «OYERNMtfN$-
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Sir R. Bullard to Mr. Eden.—(Received Wth September.)
(No. 368.) . . ,
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 a despatch of the 29th August, 1943, from His Majesty’s
Minister, Tehran, to the Iranian Prime Minister, Tehran, re German agents
operating in Persia.
Tehran, 29£A August, 1943.
Enclosure.
Sir R. Bullard to the Iranian Prime Minister.
YOUR Excellency is well aware, as the result of the recent arrest of
Franz Mayer and of the admissions made by the leaders of the Qashgai, that
German agents have been operating in this country for many months and that
others have arrived recently. Your Excellency is also aware that three Iranian
nationals known to have been connected with German agents, viz Vaziri, Naivandi
and Akhbari, have remained at large in spite of repeated requests from His
Majesty’s Legation that they should be arrested. It is quite evident that such
activities could not have been carried, on without the connivance and even the
assistance of a considerable number of Iranians, and this deduction is supported
by ample evidence which is in the possession of the Allies At least some of the
evidence available must have been communicated to your Excellency by the Iranian
investigating magistrates who collaborated with the British authorities in the
interrogation of the Iranian suspects at Sultanabad; moreover, your Excellency
is aware that only a few weeks ago the Tehran police allowed to escape two of the
interned suspects who had been allowed by the British authorities to come to
Tehran because they alleged—falsely, as it turned out—that they were seriously
ill. In these circumstances His Majesty’s Government had the right to assume
that the Persian Government, in execution of the obligations imposed upon the
Iranian Government by the Tripartite Treaty, would make the most strenuous
efforts to root out all the pro-Axis activities. Far from doing this, however, the
Iranian Government, until the last few days, allowed the Tehran police to become
more and more corrupt, inefficient and hostile to the Allies, and while the three
above-mentioned suspects continued to remain at large the Iranian Government
made repeated requests to His Majesty’s Legation with the object of securing
the release of some of the suspects who were still under detention or relaxation of
control for some who had been released on certain conditions.
2. Recent events have shown that the enemies of the United Nations have
designs on Allied interests in Iran and that the security of Allied communications
in Iran are threatened. German agents in Iran are making a desperate effort
to delay the inevitable defeat of the Axis by trying to disrupt the Allied war effort
in this country and to embroil Iran with her friends. Great Britain, the Soviet
Union and. the United States of America. It is essential to the interests of the
Allies that the pro-Axis organisation in Iran should be broken up completely, and
I therefore have the honour to hand to your Excellency with this note two lists of
suspects drawn up by His Majesty’s Legation in consultation with the Soviet
Embassy and to ask that immediate instructions be issued for their arrest and
their despatch to Sultanabad for detention and interrogation in accordance with
the agreement concluded last year between the Imperial Government and His
Majesty’s Government.
[45—32]
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The papers in this file relate to ‘Security Organisation in Persia [Iran]’.
The papers include: The deputation of an officer from the Combined Intelligence Centre Iraq (CICI) to Tehran with cover as Assistant Military Attaché, charged with collating the records of Persians and other nationals suspected of working in Axis interests, with a view to arranging with the Persian Government for their incarceration, 14 October-7 November 1941; a proposal that the CICI include Persia in its sphere of operations, 13 October-7 November 1941; the reservations of Ambassador Reader Bullard about the deputation of a CICI officer, and proposed deputation of one from India to deal with Indian suspects in Persia, 18 October-3 November 1941; the views of the Commander-in-Chief India and Commander-in-Chief Middle East on the establishment of a security and intelligence organisation in Persia under the CICI, involving a security officer at Tehran, and assistant liaison officers at Khurramabad and Sanandaj, 7-26 November 1941; the proposals of the Commander-in-Chief India on censorship in Iraq and Persia, 16 November 1941; the proposed establishment of a commission to examine all suspects, 22-29 December 1941; the preference for a policy based on collaboration rather than repression, 29 December 1941-9 January 1942; the deportation of Axis agents to the British zone in southern Persia, 22 April-24 August 1942; the agreement of the Iraqi Government to promptly alert HM representatives or consular officers in Persia and Turkey on receiving any transit visa applications, 25 June 1942; the demand of Persian Prime Minister Ahmad Qavam for any evidence against the suspects, 9 August 1942; the proposals of the Minister of State Cairo for the arrest and interrogation of suspects, 11 August 1942; and the negotiations of Bullard with prime ministers Qavam and Ali Suhayli, 29 August 1942-30 October 1943.
The file includes two dividers, which give a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. These are placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (158 folios)
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The papers are arranged in 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 160, 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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- 1r:6v, 8r:11v, 14r:20v, 22r:26v, 28r:30v, 32r:32v, 34r:34v, 36r:47v, 49r:104v, 106r:160v
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