RIO 1055 .U51 S-E -C -R--L--T U.S. Army. European Command ...

SECR7-7
FOTHUL
Secretary
Subject is about thirty years of age, small and slight in stature and has
dark hair. He worked for the Persian Consulate General in ISTANBUL.
FROUHAR
Commercial Attache
Subject is Iranian, about forty years of age, five feet seven inches tall,
has dark blond hair and a long face. He was a director in the Iranian
Ministry of Finances and a Commercial Attache in the Iranian Legation in
BERLIN until the beginning of 1941, when diplomatic relations were severed.
At that time he was ordered to defend Iranian goternment property in GERMANY.
Subject left GERMANY for SWITZERLAND in 1942.
GORECHI, HASSAN Dr.
Businessman
Subject has played a major role in IRAN t s politics since 1935. Since 1939
he had operated an export and import business between GERMANY and IRAN, which
by 1940 had expanded enormously and included trade with TURKEY. Subject was
one of the bitterest enemies of King PAIAVI of IRAN and had to flee IRAN to
BAGDAD, IRAQ. In 1937 subject met MOHAMMED HUSSEIN GHAGHGAI, Member of the
ruling family of the GHASHGAI tribe in southern IRAN, who had similar grievances
against PALAVI. MOHAMMED HUSSEIN had just completed his studies at
Oxford University in ENGLAND along with his brother MALEK MANSOUR. With the
two GHASEIGAI brothers, subject started to do everything Possible to effect
the overthrow of the PALAVI government. During this time he became involved
with various German organizations, which he tried to recruit to rid IRAN of
PALAVI. Subject was arrested on 2 February 1944 in PARIS. He was released
on 24 May 1944 and re-arrested on 13 June 1944 in BERLIN and kept in oonfinement
until the arrival of the Russians on 24 April 1945.
GRAGAZOLOU„ HUSSEIN
Subject is Iranian, about fifty-eight years of age, five feet seven inches
tall and has thin grey hair. He came to GERMANY in 1940 in order to enlist
German aid in ridding IRAN of PAHLAVI. Subject was one of the bitterest
enemies of PAHLAVI. He was in contact with the Germans until 1943, in which
year he returned to IRAN through TURKEY.
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