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    "ocrText": "TOP SECRE!\nDECLASSIFIED\nE.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)\nDept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1972\n-6-\nBy NLTH MARS Date 6.26.75\nElimination of Censorship in Iran Recommended.\nImmediate steps to eliminate Anglo-Soviet political\ncensorship in Iran, which would prevent the Soviet\nTass agency from monopelizing the world press with\nbiased reports on Iran, is recommended by Ambassador\nMurray. American news agencies in the country are\ngreatly handicapped by the existing censorship, which\nmay prove a great obstacle in carrying out American\npolicy in that area, Murray believes. The British\nAmbassador is recommending to his government denun-\nciation of the Anglo-Soviet-Iranian censorship arrange-\nment of 1942 and is suggesting that the question be\ndiscussed at the Big Three meeting. Should denuncia-\ntion of the agreement be followed by continued Soviet\ncensorship, based on treaty rights to control Iranian\ncommunications, the United States should strongly\nobject, Murray believes. He would then recommend use\nof Embassy facilities for transmission of American\nnews despatches.\nBritish Optimistic Over Latest French Offer to\nLevant States. The latest French offer to Syria and\nLebanon may, if it proves to be official, represent\na definite first step toward a settlement of the\nFranco-Levant States' dispute, the British believe.\nFrench Delegate Ostrorog presented the proposals\nunofficially on his return to Beirut from Paris.\nHis superior General Beynet, has asked Paris for\nconfirmation.\n3\nteves\n(ingrew) James 7. Byrnes"
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