Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, the Ambassador of Iran, and W. Clyde Dunn

S/S M.a. DEPARTMENT OF STATE 76 Memorandum of Conversation DATE: March 14, 1949 SUBJECT: Current Situntion An Iran vie-s-via the Soviet Union PARTICIPANTS: The Secretery The Iranian Ambasendor : ARCHIVES "NATIONAL SERVICE** RECORDS AND Also Present: W. Glyde Dunn, Assistent Chief, Confidential COPIES TO: G EUR EE UNP Tehron) Noscow) by etamp Londen) 1-1493 Mr. Ala etated thet hia Government vas very apprehensive over the recent increase of Seviet press end radie propaganda accusing Iran of unfriendly nots. As evidence of the appar. ent Boviet intention to undersine the Government of Iran, Mr. Ala referred to the regent attemyt upon the life of the Shah as part of a larger Soviet plan, through the Tudeh Party in Iren, to greate confusion within the country. He referred also to Soviet complicity in clandestine publicatione in Tehran which stated thet the Governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the USSR were conferring in order to determine the future atatus of Iren. Nr. Ala added that he was certain no such conferences vere in progrees and vould not take place without the knovledge of the Iranisn Govern- ment. I assured Mr. Ale thet hie viewa vere correct. Mr. Ala stated thet on February 19 the Fereign Minieter of Iran hed handed the Soviet Ambassador in Tebran a memoran- dun protesting Soviet preee and radio allegations which the Iranion Government felt conmituted interference in the internal effairs of Iran. He handed me a copy of the nemoren- dum, stating that it had been released to the prese in Tehran on March 3. The Irenien memorandum hnd not previously been DECLASSIFIED E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (3) 7-23-75 Dept. of State letter, By NLT- He , NARS Date 4-20-66