Internal political situation in Muscat and Oman

This file relates to the internal political situation in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. It contains correspondence concerning:

• Death of a British officer Captain P Chambers of the Trucial Oman Scouts (TOS) while on patrol in Jebel Akhdar and the question of publicity (37)
• Iraq Petroleum Company's concerns about the security situation in light of the mining of its company vehicles and its suggestions regarding the Sultan's Armed Forces and RAF's military responses (38, 40-41)
• Advantages and disadvantages of three military courses suggested (codenames Varlet, Succour and Kilsyth) if the current operation, designed to create the conditions necessary for an accommodation between Sultan Saeed Bin Taimur and Sheikh Sulaiman Bin Himyar Al Nabhani whereby Ghalib Bin Ali Al Hina'i and Taleb Bin Ali Al Hina’i would be eliminated from the mountains, fails (39)
• Authority to extend the blockade of Jebel Akhdar, and the political implications of an attack by British aircraft on water supplies and cultivation outside villages (42)
• Death of Corporal Hedges of the Royal Marines in the course of operations near Nizwa (43)
• Procedure for diplomatic posts addressing enquiries concerning the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman (44)
• Finance and issue of stores for the current military operations in Oman and the Muscat Government's need to loan a safe in which to keep classified documents (45, 52)
• United Arab Republic report of RAF bombers launching a violent attacking on an Omani village, and News Department's denials (46)
• Press reports that Omani nationalists destroyed a British camp, killing 42 soldiers and burning eight trucks (48)
• Note on Oman for Pakistan (49)
• Small explosion outside the house of Neil Innes, the Sultan's Minister of External Affairs (50)
• Oman Imamate report on the shooting down of an RAF aircraft (53)
• Vietnamese press reports that two British jet fighters and one bomber were shot down in Oman (55)
• Egyptian penetration and subversion in Kuwait (56)
• Voice of the Arabs reports and broadcasts (57, 60)
• Pakistan press reports giving casualty figures of alleged UK casualties in Oman (59)

This file also contains correspondence relating to complaints by the Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah Sheikh Saqr Bin Mohammad Al Qasimi regarding the activities of the TOS in his territory and the fact that Britain listened to Ali Bin Saif's complaint about the cessation of Sheikh Saqr's payments to him from his oil concession (54).