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Article 812
Sedan house documents:
With the approval of Iran’s oil industry nationalization law in the 16th Majlis, Iran’s oil and gas industry was declared national, and the companies, offices, documents, and documents of the British and Iran Oil Company were also nationalized. But this incident, along with the passing of the law to expropriate the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and Mossadiq’s legal victory in New York and The Hague, did not please England at all, and therefore the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in Tehran planned to transfer all the secret and confidential documents of the company, were carried out to the private house of Richard Sedan.
On June 25, Richard Sedan transferred the confidential documents of Iran and England Oil Company to his private house, and six days later, the secret of Sedan’s house was revealed.
Two years later, Muzafar Baqaei handed over the documents discovered from Richard Sedan’s house, in which he had distorted many secrets by treachery. Baqaei has said: I met Hossein Pakravan in Tehran through the late “Sadiq Hedayat”. Hedayat arranged a dinner party at his home. During this party, while talking, I asked Pakravan why he requested to communicate with me confidentially. He replied:
“Perhaps you don’t know that I have an important position in the information office of the oil company located on Naderi Street and I have access to many confidential documents,” Pakravan said. Among the members of the National Front, I have come to believe in several people, including you and Hossein Mak’ki.
In the third meeting with Pakravan, he informed me that the British heads of the publishing department of the oil company, with the help of some Iranians, were taking out sensitive files from the secret archives and taking them to “Sedan’s” house every day. Cases that are very confidential and important are transferred to the British Embassy in Tehran or Qolhak. After narrating his meeting with Pakravan, Baqaei added: “When I learned about the confidential transfers of cases, we started working together with Fazlullah Zahedi. We placed the operation center and headquarters in the office of Abulqasem Tafzali in Kandahari Passage and started the attack on May 24th, 1951. Very in the morning, we left the guard sedan around the house and planned to enter the house at around 11 o’clock. When I ordered to enter the house, papers, and documents were burning in all the heaters. However, with the efforts made by the staff, a large number of documents were saved from burning.
Among the tables were typewriters, photocopiers, and wireless transmitters. We decided on a safe with dimensions of one cubic meter. In the safe, apart from the four coded books, there was a letter signed by Stockil, which was supposed to be encrypted and sent to London, but with our sudden attack on the Sedan house, they did not find a chance to burn it, and as a result, the document fell into our hands. The said document was so valuable and useful for us that we presented it to Mr. Dr. Mossadiq after making several photocopies, and he was so happy and excited to see the documents that while reading it, he got up from the bed and kissed me twice. After preparing the official and correct translation, they took it with them to The Hague, and if I am not exaggerating, we must admit that this same document caused the Hague Arbitration Court to issue a decision of incompetence.
It should be mentioned that in the last hour before Mossadiq and his companions left for The Hague, Mossadiq gave the documents to one of the employees of his office in the Prime Minister to pack them. Minutes before leaving his office, Mosadegh asks one of the board members to open and review the package to see that they have been chosen correctly. When they opened the package, they were surprised to see that it contained several waste newspapers. They take the documents back from that employee and leave. This shows that the agents of the British Embassy had infiltrated the Prime Minister’s office.
In this process, four volumes of the code book were obtained. With Pakravan’s guidance, we tried to get the telegrams that the oil company gave to the Tehran telegraph office with different codes for transmission to London, and to discover them and put them at the disposal of the head of the government, but unfortunately, I have to say that we had not started yet. We found out that all the telegraphs were set on fire. When we told the story to Dr. Gholamhossein Seddiqi, then Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, he simply said: “I was not aware of the story behind the scenes of this work, and according to the report of the Deputy Minister of Posts and Telegraphs and the head of the Tehran Telegraph Department and the usual routine of the telegraph house with I agreed to set fire to telegraphs a long time ago without being aware of the story.
A few days later, at the same time as the commission started to deal with the documents discovered in Richard Sedan’s house, Sedan, the president, and his superior “Drake” were summoned to the court, but when they did not appear in the court building, it soon became clear that the chicken had jumped out of the cage and the British Embassy made them flee from Iran [1].
Reference:
[1]- Ismail Ra’ein. “Secrets of the Sedan House”. Tehran. Amirkabir1979..
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