RELEASE OF IRANIAN PRISONERS BY THE SOVIET UNION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004900690002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 15, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 2, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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Release of Iranian Frio. ere by
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-According to innforiaa.n .... rurxors haves Vi vn airaulating recently within
the Soviet: Union that relations between the. USSR and Iran moon wil,
he improved,,
, An e: afale of this is the fact that the Soviets recently have released
from in ter nz ent 25 Iranians, and soon will release and repatriate all
she r raining prisoners,,
According to informa.nt one of the former inteinoos spent two years in
jail at Tashkent, Uzbek SSL where corditionn were intolerable, However,
'staving agreed to accept Soviet citizenship, he was released and sonnb to a
work cramp a Abbas Abed near Tashkent During I. hie six years at this
location he was provided rrath everything he wanted., including ccm rortable
living quartor?sF, satisfactory nor^k4 and excellent food.,
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