Office of the Historian

891.20/255: Telegram

The Minister in Iran (Dreyfus) to the Secretary of State

Tehran, November 28, 1943—11 a.m.
[Received December 4—11:52 a.m.70]

1071. Agreement covering engagement of American Military Mission to reorganize Iranian Gendarmerie signed by myself and Foreign. [Page 560] Minister yesterday.72 Notes will now be exchanged fixing compensation to be paid by the Iranian Government.73

Dreyfus
  1. Telegram apparently delayed in transmission.↩
  2. Department of State Executive Agreement Series No. 361; 57 Stat. (pt. 2) 1262.↩
  3. This was done in notes of December 2, 1943, and January 16, 1944; copies were transmitted to the Department in the Minister’s despatch No. 804, January 19, 1944. Compensation for the Chief of Mission was set at $4,207 per annum; for the Assistant Chief, $3,907: for all other commissioned officers, $3,757; for enlisted men, $2,705.↩