888.2553/1–1453: Telegram
No. 280
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom
(Gifford) to the
Department of State1
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3843. From Byroade. This is message No. 3.
Following contains text of cover memo which Mosadeq and Henderson would initial: Mechanics of handling will be covered in message (5).
“Attached to this memo are drafts of three agreements. The first two are agreements between the Government of Iran and he Government of the UK, providing respectively for the settlement of the dispute between the Government of Iran and the AIOC by international arbitration and for the regulation of certain questions connected therewith. The third is an agreement between the US Defense Materials Procurement Agency and the Government of Iran providing for the purchase of crude oil and oil products.
“It is understood that a representative of the Government of Iran and a representative of the Government of the UK will sign the first two of these agreements after the arrival of a UK representative in Tehran for that purpose; and a representative of the Government of Iran and a representative of the Government of the US will on the same day sign the third agreement.
“Tehran (date).
“(Initialled by a representative of the Government of Iran).
“(Initialled by a representative of the Government of the US).”2
- Sent to Tehran eyes only for Ambassador Henderson as telegram 149 and repeated to the Department.↩
- Several minor changes were made in the text of this document. These alterations are in Document 283.↩