TUDEH PARTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE PROPOSALS MADE TO BAZAAR COMMITTEE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002700980002-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 14, 2004
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 2, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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1. The Tudeh Party Central Committee proposed to the Bazaar Committeel
that bazaar merchants should "freeze" all cash receipts from their daily sales
in order to keep vials out of circulation and thus aggravate the Government's
rial shortage.l
2. The Tudeh Party Central Committee also proposed at the same time that the
Tudeh Party and the Bazaar Committee should arrange a joint anti-Government
demonstration and strike within the next 15 days.
Tudeh Party Central Committee
Proposals Made to Bazaar Committee
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1, According to a statemebt released to the Iranian press on 5 October 1953 by
Minister of Finance Dr. Ali Amini, the Government lacks sufficient rials to
supply current needs. Amini stated that despite the issuance of 3.12 billion
rials by the Mossadeg Government there is now an acute note shortage, due
to cashing holdings of landowners, smuggling, and the political situation
which has caused wealthy merchants to maintain large stocks of notes.
2. For further information concerning plans for a strike and for relations
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