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Teletype Message from Averell Harriman to President Harry S. Truman
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Teletype Message from Averell Harriman to President Harry S. Truman
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Anglo-Iranian Oil Dispute, 1951-1954
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1951-08-01
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1951
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WHW DE PRES GA WITH TFC
K
V
FROM : HARRIMAN
TO
: THE PRESIDENT ABOARD THE USS WILLIAMSBURG
DECLASSIFIED
NR
: WH 652
B. o. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and sea
Dept. a deztezo y-11-24
DTG
: 182145Z
NLT
TOP
EYES ONLY
OLCRET
EYES ONLY TOP SECRET EYES ONLY
SENT DEPT 704, LONDON 151 EYES ONLY AMBASSADOR.
FROM HARRIMAN FOR PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY.
NO DISTRIBUTION EXCEPT AS DIRECTED BY SECRETARY,S OFFICE.
IN HIS MEETING WITH MOSADEQ FRIDAY AFTERNOON LEVY OUTLINED
TECHNICAL REASONS WHY FOREIGN ORGANIZATION WAS NEEDED TO CONDUCT
OIL OPERATIONS IN IRAN AS AGENT NIOC RPT NIOC CMA AND REVIEWED
ARRANGEMENTS IN OTHER COUNTRIES WHICH ASSURED THAT OPERATING AGENCIES
CARRY OUT THEIR WORK IN CONFORMITY AGREEMENTS WITH GOVTS PD TALK WAS
MOST FRIENDLY CMA AND MOSADEQ SHOWED REAL INTEREST IN PRESENTATION AND
ASKED NUMBER OF QUESTIONS PD ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT RPT NOT DENY
VALIDITY ARGUMENTS PRESENTED CMA MOSADEQ REPEATED THAT HE COULD NOT
RPT NOT ACCEPT AGENCY ARRANGEMENT PD LEVY STATED BRITAIN PROPOSAL
PROVIDED BASIS FOR NEGOTIATION OF AGREEMENT WHICH WOULD BE FULLY WITHIN
FORMULA UNDER WHICH BRITAIN MISSION CAME TO IRAN PD THE ONLY BASIS UPON
WHICE
MOSA DEQ DISPUTED THIS WAS THAT IRAN COULD NOT RPT NOT CONTROL
AGENCY CMA SINCE THE SEVANT PAREN MEANING BRITAIN PAREN WOULD BE
BIGGER THAN THE MASTER" PD MOSADEQ AGAIN SHOWED COMPLACENCY AT POSSIBLE
RESULTS LOSS OF OIL REVENUES PD
IRAN NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE HAS MEETING WITH BRITAIN MISSION
LATE THIS AFTERNOON PAREN SATURDAY PAREN AT WHICH I MAY BE ASKED TO BE
PRESENT PD STOKES TELLS ME HE IS GOING TO STATE HE IS READY TO REMAIN
ABOUT WEEK IF REAL NEGOTIATIONS ARE UNDERTAKEN PD I MAY CMA HOWEVER
CMA MEET WITH IRAN COMMITTEE SEPARATELY TO URGE THAT THEY NOT RPT NOT
TAKE POSITION WHICH WOULD MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR BRITAIN TO CONTINUE
NEGOTIATIONS AND TO HAVE LEVY REPEAT PRESENTATION WHICH HE GAVE TO
MOSADEQ YESTERDAY IN HOPE THIS GROUP CAN BE CONVINCED THAT AGENCY
ARRANGEMENT IS ESSENTIAL AND CAN BE MADE WITH ADEQUATE SAFEGUARDS FOR
IRAN PD
I SAW SHAH RPT SHAH THIS MORNING AND LATER ALA PRT ALA PD I
REVIEWED DEVELOPMENTS IN DETAIL AND POINTED OUT IRAN GOVT HAD NOT RPT
NOT IN FACT NEGOTIATED IN ACCORDANCE WITH FORMULA PD SINCE MOSADEQ HAD
INSISTED ON HIS COMPLETE CONTROL AND CENSORSHIP OF IRAN NEGOTIATING
COMMITTEES MEETINGS WITH BRITAIN CMA I EXPRESSED MY CONCERN OVER
RESULTING DISASTER IF BREAKDOWN IN NEGOTIATIONS SHOULD OCCUR AND ASKED
WHETHER IT WAS NOT RPT NOT TIME FOR PEOPLE WHO HAD INTEREST IN FUTURE
OF IRAN TO BECOME INVOLVED IN SITUATION BEFORE IT WAS TOO LATE PD SHAH
RPT SHAH SAID THAT IT WOULD BE FAR EASIER IF AGREEMENT COULD BE
REACHED WITH MOSADEQ BUT THAT HE HAD NEVER BEEN TOO OPTIMISTIC THIS
WOULD BE POSSIBLE PD HE AGREED TO SEND ALA RPT ALA TO MOSADEQ TODAY
WITH STRONG MESSAGE FROM HIM CMA AND SAID THAT IN ANY EVENT I SHOULD
SEE IRAN NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE PD I TOLD HIM I MUST MAKE SOME PUBLIC
STATEMENT WITHIN THE NEXT TWO. FOUR HOURS CMA FORM OF WHICH WOULD DEPEND
ON WHAT TRANSPIRED THIS AFTERNOON CMA AS I UNDERSTOOD MOSADEQ OR SOME
OF HIS ASSOCIATES WERE SPREADING REPORT THAT CMA IF BRITAIN LEFT CMA
US RPT US COMPANIES WITH ENCOURAGEMENT OF US RPT US GOVT WOULD STEP IN
AND MAKE MORE FAVORABLE DEAL PD
ALA RPT ALA SAID NOT RPT NOT TO BE TOO DISCOURAGED AS THERE
MIGHT STILL BE MORE FAVORABLE DEVELOPMENTS PD HE EMPHASIZED THAT IRAN
REACTION TO STOKES PROPOSAL HAD so FAR BEEN INFLUENCED BY MOSADEQ AND
HIS GROUP CONTENDING IT WAS SIMPLY RETURN TO STATUS QUO RPT QUO
THROUGH BRITAIN CONTROL OF BOTH PURCHASING ORGAINZATION AND OPERATING
AGENCY PD I BELIEVE HE HIMSELF UNDERSTANDS THAT THIS NEED NOT RPT NOT
BE THE CASE IF PROPER SA FEGUARDS ARE WORKED OUT CMA PARTICULARLY WITH
LEVY,S AND MY HELP AND ADVICE PD
THERE ARE UNCONFIRMED RUMOURS THAT CERTAIN MORE REASONABLE
MEMBERS OF SENATE AND MAJLIS RPT MAJLIS ARE BEGINNING SHOW CONCERN
OVER POSSIBLE BREAKDOWN OF NEGOTIATIONS AND THAT KASHAN RPT KASHAN HAS
MADE CONTACT WITH SOVIET AGENTS HERE TO OBTAIN SOVIET ASSISTANCE PD
/S/ GRADY
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