TANKER REPORT UNCONFIRMED
(Rec. 8 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. British and United States officials said today that they knew nothing to confirm ttie published report that some independent United States companies had sent tankers to buy Persian
Oil and trade circles in Washington and New York made similar reply when questioned about the leading article in the “New York Times” which said it was an open secret that tankers were “well on the way” to Iran. A spokesman for the Cities’ Service Company whose president, Mr Alton Jones, recently discussed the oil situation in Teheran with Dr. Mussadiq, declared: “We have heard nothing at all about United States tankers going to Persia.”
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26857, 9 October 1952, Page 9
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