Defence and Overseas Policy (Official) Committee, sub committee on problems of Persian Gulf

This file relates to Bahrain and Britain's proposed withdrawal from the Gulf in 1971. It contains:

• Successive drafts of ‘The Problem of Bahrain’, published by the Gulf sub-committee of the Defence and Overseas Policy (Official) Committee, covering: the development of the Bahrain National Guard and British defence sales; development of Bahrain’s airport; and the question of whether or not to transfer Britain's defence facilities to Bahrain free of charge
• Correspondence related to the draft report, including a brief for the Foreign Secretary, by D J McCarthy; and the assessment of A D Parsons
• Correspondence on the proportion of Bahrain's state income reserved for the Ruling Family
• Data on local employees of the UK Armed Forces
• Note prepared for the Cabinet Office on the Bahrain economy