Registry No. * Date and time (G.M.T.) telegram should, reach addressee(s) ۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰ Top Secret Secret Confidential Restricted Open EMERGENCY ) * IMMEDIATE PRIORITY ROUTINE with -priority without DEFERRED Draft. Telegram to: Caipo [Security classification] . --if any [Codeword—if any] Address to... Cairo No. (Date)... telegram No And to : (s) V NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN repeated for information to repeated for information to....... Bahrain, Muscat and POMEC (Aden) and Saving to UKMis New York. BC101698 Repeat to : Cairo press on Oman. POMEC (Aden)/794. This is tendentious rubbish. UKMIS New York Point 1. The position is essentially the SAN same as that reported to the U.N. by Mr. de Ribbing in 1963. He then said that in the army En Clair. Code and gendarmerie totalling 2,333, there were 26 Cypher seconded British officers, 35 British contract officers and, for training purposes, up to 6 Distribution : FOWH N.C.O's. The Sultan's air force had 10 seconded R.A.F. personnel. In adation, As the ad hoc Committee on Oman were recently told, there are R.A.F. detachments at Masirah Island and the staging post at Salalah who, however, are concerned with staging and do not affect the local administration in any way. Mr. de Ribbing) quoted the Sultan as declaring emphatically that "everything is in my hands" and that the British officers had nothing to do with policy making. As you know this is true. 3. Poknts 2 and 3 and allegation in your para 2 are pure fiction. No one in the Sultanate has
