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Ext 6552/41 ‘Security Organisation in Persia’ [92r] (183/320)
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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With the Compliment^
of the
Under Secretary of Stat(
for Foreign Wj
[CYPHER], ^
FROM TEIiRAH g 6 FQREXGIv OFFICE,
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DEPARTMSM m Noe 2« M-.L
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July 51st 4 1S42«
July 51st 3 1942 e
Sir R„ Bullardo
No < 968cA>
July 51st, 1942®
Repeated Bagdad for General Officer Comiiianding No* 274o
Minister of State No* 255*.
IMMEDIATE.
You
No. 1156,
yymy
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Y-QU_r telegram NOo 1068 and’Minister- of State's telegram
1567!y> ‘W,
t. .
.- Since my telegram No c 94# was Written f the situation here
^as changedo Owing to internal crisis-Soheily has'.ceased to
. have...any power and no longer has authority to• carly out neces-
' ‘ sary arrests© Meanwhile continued'Russian withdrawal’: [?grp«
ommitted:? not only] increases the danger of 5 th column in
Persia hut also tends to discourage Persian, authorities from
iii-: appreciate: that, demands for Persiahsto he handed over iu the
. British authorities unconditionally, is not the most favourable
. way in which to begin-our relations -v/ith it©
r- ; 2 * I appreciate of course that we cannot allow Persian
authorities to make conditions about interrogation and place of
confinement hut;
(a) The Persian Government must he aware that in Iraq sur
veillance of internees is left to the Iraqi Government,
(b) When we asked that the first set of internees should he
handed over to us instead of being sent to Kerman our task was
facilitated by our decision to send them not to Ahwaz hut to
Kermanshah: now they have been sent to Ahwaz© The Persians
regard Ahwaz as hell on earth and decision to send intemees
there greatly increases resistance to handing over of suspects
and degree of pressure we must exercise©
(c) Fact that internees have not been interrogated gives
support to suggestions made by the Persian authorities that
suspeots are interned on flimsiest pretext and that we are not
interested in. substantiating their evidence© There must in any
case be much information of value which intemees could give
and which would greatly aid us here©
2* [sio:? 5] Pending the fonnation of the new Government
British militarist [sic:? military] authorities are themselves
arresting suspeots but this is necessarily being done under
difficult conditions©
4© Our aim of securing cooperation of any (of)Persian
Government at this difficult moment in our attempt to eliminate
some Persian members of the 5th column would be enormously
facilitated if we could make definite arrangement with the
. Persian Government comprising the following terms:-
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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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- Ext 6552/41 ‘Security Organisation in Persia’
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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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