891.20/251: Telegram
The Minister in Iran (Dreyfus) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11:59 p.m.]
1034. Following is text of law passed by Medjliss on October 21 authorizing Iranian Government to sign agreement employing Schwarzkopf Mission:
“Article 1. The National Consultative [Constituent] Assembly authorizes the Government to collaborate with the Government of the United States of America for the engagement of a mission of American Army officers, NCO’s62 and experts, the number of officers of which shall not exceed eight, with a view to reforming the affairs of the Gendarmerie, on the following terms:
(a) The senior officer of the mission will be the chief of the mission and will have the title of Advisor to the Ministry of the Interior for the Gendarmerie.
(b) The mission’s period of engagement will be 2 years, the period of their engagement may be renewed by mutual consent 3 months before the expiration of this period.
(c) The salary of no member of the mission may exceed $8,000 a year.
Salaries must be paid in 12 equal installments, in dollars in America to the extent which each member of the mission desires and the balance in rials in Iran (at the official rate of exchange).
The salaries of members of the mission will be exempt from every sort of tax or charges which are now, or shall in future be, imposed whether by the Government, or by administrative or political divisions subject to the Government. And if any new tax applicable to their [Page 551] salaries should be imposed at this tune or during the course of the agreement it must be paid by the Ministry of the Interior, so that each member of the mission shall receive the exact salary allotted to him without any reduction. The traveling expenses of members of the mission and of their families (wife and children) from America to Iran and back will be fixed by agreement between the American and Iranian Government[s].
(d) The Government is authorized, after consulting the Ministry of the Interior, to fix and give effect to the limits of powers, duties and other terms of engagement of the members of the mission, with the consent of the United States Government.”
I have gone over draft agreement in great detail with present Minister of Interior Tadayyon who requests that the following changes be made:
[Here follow suggested changes in draft agreement.]
- Non-commissioned officers.↩