Office of the Historian

891.20/254a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Iran (Ford)

Washington, November 11, 1943—2 p.m.

574. Effective on the date when the Gendarmerie contract is signed, the War Department, with the concurrence of the Department of State, is relieving Colonel Schwarzkopf from assignment to duty with the American Minister at Tehran and assigning him as Chief of the United States Army Mission to Iran in connection with the reorganization of the Iranian Gendarmerie.

Schwarzkopf will discuss this with you on his return.68

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  1. Colonel Schwarzkopf had been in the United States for consultation with the War Department.↩