MILITARY - BORDER CLASH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700210002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 9, 2002
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 23, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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REPORT NO.
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
CD NO.
DATE OF
SUBJECT
Military - Border clash
HOW
DATE DISTM Feb 1953
PUBLISHED
Semiweekly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED
Tehran
NO. OF PAGES 2
DATE
PUBLISHED
13 Jan 1953
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
he following information was obtaire d from the 13 January
1953 issue of Khandaniha. The'pericdir.'. attributes the
information to an unspecified issue of Etelaat IIaftgi. Ltelaat
Haftgi ;c ct Weekly periodical published in Tehran by the daily
newspaper Etelaat.
It was reported that in early January, Iranian and USSR border troops in
the vicinity of Baiat Haji f3-70 30' N-54? 45 7 exchanged fire on several
occasions. The first shot was fired by the Soviet border troops at Baiat
Safi and shooting soon spread to various posts along the border. The Soviet
troops were, for the moat part, flrin3 into the riser and iLa banks from the
tops of the border towers, but at one point, the Soviets and Iranians were
firing at each other.
As soon as Colonel YarJani of the Iranian borderguards at Atrek heard,
cf this incident, be went to Dashbrun Lnot further identified, one of the
locations at which the firing was taking place, where he was informed that
the shooting had been going on since the previous night.
When Colonel Yarjani arrived at Dashbrun, word was spread among the
Turkomen L nhabitante of this areal that a fight between Soviet and Iranian
troops was going to start and that it would threaten their security.
At 1000 hours, after Colonel :ar.;ani had arrived, the Iranians hoisted a
white flage over a minaret located north of Dashbrun, indicating that they
wanted to talk with the Soviet border troops. The raising of a white flag
is the customary procedure when either of he border contingents wants to
discuss any subjecc with the other.
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Within 10 minutes, firing had ceased all along the border, and Colonel
Ynrjani, accompanied by one aide, met with a Soviet official and an inter-
prete3' on a wooden bridg= linking Dashbrun and Baiat Hari.
At this meeting, the Soviets stated that US military officials had been
tifieg and from the vicinity territory
Musa Khan River Tepeh
contrary to the treaty and protocols existing between the two countries.
Therefore, the Soviets continued, they were forced to take steps to prevent
such action. The _;,viets also stated that a formal note would be sent
through the Soviet Foreign Ministry to the Iranian government.
The Iranians replied that there were no JJS photographers along the Atrek
frontier and that the incident was the result of a misunderstanding on the
part of a Soviet military official.
Investigation of the Soviet claim revealed the presence of two agricultural
engineers who had arrived in this region to study the possibility of utilizing
the waters of the Atrelt River and that the Soviets had mistaken them for US
photographers.
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