MRS. R. W. IMBRIE BLAMES REDS FOR IRAN KIDNAPPING

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: March 30, 1957
• Content Type: NSPR

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Mrs. R. W. Imbrie Blames
:Reds for Iran Kidnaping
,By Standard-TImes Washington 56MMO
WASHINGTON, March, 30--
Whitney Imbr a told The New illedfOrG, 55aaa., ouna
today she thinks communists instigated the. murder?an -a ue on
incident in Iran this week, lust 8f Mh. ri}tni thou cirri the stihinr.
eling in their jeeps.
Husband's Death Recalled
because "to the Reds anyone fro
a foreign Government is ai pote
teal agent." She also thoug
Communists would have raldi
The former New Bedford wo
an, who now Summers on Ca
Several days after, Mrs. Imbrie
continued, her car was beset by
Iranian police who inflicted a
beating and left her with inju-
ries that still plague her. She re-
turned to this country and spent
many days In a hospital. The
Tehran Government eventually
settled $60,000 on the Massachu-
setts woman in indemnities.
Price on Imbrie's Head
"The Bolsheviks once offered
$35,000 for the death of my. hus.
band," she recalled. "Later, aft?
r he met me in Turkey and we
1iota. aurul IC Gaul sae met major
mbrie while she was with a Near
ast relief organization in Anka.
Ta, the Turkish capital. The cou-
Ole lived in Tabriz, which she
galled a "hotbed of Bolshevism,"
n the Turkish-Iran hnrder hnfnr.
Cod, blames a Communist-inff>} Tehran on his special assignment,
enced.conspiracy for, the death of After his death, she said the
lgajor Robert .V. Imbrie, then V. S. Government sent "only a
aoecial State Department repr
silntative with the American leg
tp~ i Tehran, in 1924.
M&Jt Imbrie was attacked,
e Reza regime. Returning here,
e made claims for damages
hick she said were stymied by
FOIAb3b
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
1refuge because of Communist
hatred` and the fact Imbrie was
Sanitized
uper-secret nteiligence
ency.
Mrs. Imbrie claimed that his
tart' of state in the Woodrow
ilson Administration. Robert
o favor a refund of indemnities
iready paid by Reza Shah.
Lansing, Mrs. Imbrie said, was
fiscal agent for Iran. The duties
.f this position involved efforts
p secure a loan for Iran and the
ale of small arms to Iranians,
he stated, which were then, she
lamed, shipped to "the Bolshe-
Us."
Reds Blamed
Referring to the Carroll tnci
lent, Mrs. Imbrie said, "There:
:vaa no reason why the Iranian
overnment shouldn't have done.
'Verything to protect the three'
lmericans.
"Thu ~Cg~ nn1 er by
AperereV[?tialIT9, ~e9dicrCI
, 1. I they are active now.;
"m sti G`ael' had a iinn(i these
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