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    "ocrText": "e. Caspian Sea Navigation Company.\nThe head office of this company in Iran is at Bandar Pahlevi (MA Teh. R-24-47,\n11 Feb. '47). There is a branch office at Bandar Shah and probably at other ports along\nthe Iranian coast. The company's fleet operates between Baku and the Iranian Cas-\npian ports. These vessels are reportedly used to smuggle agents into Iran. By August\n1946 Moscow had not given the company permission to turn back installations at\nBandar Shah to the Iranian Government (SSU A-71080, 14-20 Aug. '46). Operations\nof this company were covered in an agreement between Iran and the USSR of 1 October\n1927. Article XI of the Soviet-Iranian Treaty of 1921 declares that navigation on the\nCaspian Sea is entirely free for both countries. In actual practice Iran has failed to\nmake use of these waters except for locally owned fishing boats. The USSR maintains\nwarships on the Caspian in addition to its commercial fleet.\nf. Iransovtrans.\nThe Transovtrans transport organization, set up during World War II as a\ncompany provided with its own capital but subordinate to the Soviet Trade Delegation\nin Iran, is continuing its operations in Iran. Its main office is in Tehran, and it main-\ntains a branch in Tabriz. The locations of other branch offices, if any, are uncertain.\nThe Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has recently made a formal request for the\nliquidation of Iransovtrans.\nDuring the war its purpose was to transport lend-lease goods and local Iranian\nproduce through Iran to the USSR. It operated fleets of trucks and some passenger\nbusses and managed local freight shipments on the northern section of the Iranian\nState Railways. At first the company contracted for the use of Iranian-owned trucks\nbut later added a fleet of lend-lease trucks.* In its operations the company consist-\nently violated Iranian regulations. For example, it charged rates for freight and\npassenger transport which were below those officially fixed by the Iranian Government.\nIt also obtained preferential treatment in its contract with the Iranian Office of Road\nTransport, for the contract failed to set penalties for delays in shipment by Iransov-\ntrans (MA Teh. 232, 2 Feb. '44, and Teh. 1448, 8 Nov. '46). After the end of the war the\ncompany refused to permit Iranian inspection of its traffic and violated frontier control\nregulations (CIG SO 6495, 3 June '47).\nNegotiations in 1946 with the Iranian State Railways for a two-year renewal\nof leases on storehouses owned by the railway indicate that the company intends to\nmaintain operations on a substantial scale (CIA SO 3341, 1 Dec. '46).\nIn 1947 representatives at Bandar Pahlevi (MA Teh. R-24-47, 11 Feb. '47) and\nJulfa (MA Teh. R-21-47, 6 Feb. '47) were active, and the company was engaging muha-\njirs, principally Armenians who spoke Turki. By the end of June 1947 some 400 former\n* More recent information (Teh. desp. 588, 31 Dec. '47) states that Iransovtrans no longer main-\ntains its own trucking organization and now conducts its business chiefly through local garage\nagents and contracts made with individual drivers. However, the Iranian Government has recently\nbanned the movement of 500 vehicles owned by Iransovtrans and Iransovnaft in the frontier area\n(MA Teh. 134, 14 Feb. '48), which suggests that extensive operations are being continued by\nIransovtrans.\nSECRET\nIII-6"
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