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August 30, 1979

Resolution of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 'On a Request from the Central Committee of the People's Party of Iran'

No. ST 174/47gs from 30.VIII.1979

 

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RESOLUTION

of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

 

On a request from the Central Committee of the People's Party of Iran

 

RESOLVED:

 

To direct the USSR Committee of State Security and the General Headquarters of the Armed Forces to study the question of the possibility of providing the People's Party of Iran [Handwritten: "with various weapons of non-Soviet manufacture"] and present proposals to the CPSU Central Committee.

 

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Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat ordering that the Committee for State Security (KGB) and the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces consider the possibility of delivering non-Soviet weapons to the People's Party of Iran (PPI).

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RGANI, f. 89, op.32, d.10, ll. 1. Contributed by Roham Alvandi and translated by Richard Iserman.

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