UK military operations in Muscat and Oman. Code BA file 1195 (papers 91 to 106)

This file relates to the military situation in Muscat and Oman. It contains correspondence concerning:

• The Sultan of Muscat and Oman Saeed Bin Taimur’s dhow and that it is needed immediately for extensive patrols by the Sultan’s Armed Forces (SAF); the dhow called Sur and that it will be in operation shortly (91, 94)
• Request for authority to move a new squadron of lifeguards and to employ some Trucial Oman Scouts (TOS) in anti-gun running shore patrols down the Batina [Batinah] Coast (92)
• Request for a list of mine incidents since 1 March 1959 from the Sultan. It also includes a request for a review of the Muscat-Matrah [Muttrah] defence scheme with a focus on Jalali prison (93, 95)
• Extra costs of proposed manoeuvres by British troops in Muscat (96)
• Report on mine incidents in Oman at Firq (97)
• Proposed recruitment of trackers from Kenya; the agreement of the Colonial Office; the arrangement of their travel to Aden (98, 100, 103)
• Discussions on the possible future military interventions in Muscat and Oman between the Foreign Office and the Department of Defence (99)
• Request from the office in Tripoli for denial of an Arab press report that 22 British soldiers were killed in Oman; the denial of Cairo Radio’s propaganda on fighting in Oman and a request for information from C F R Barclay as to why the Foreign Office is reluctant to give the facts (102, 106)
• Article on the uprising in Oman in the Times of Karachi (104)
• Planning for the Phantom 1 exercise in Jebel Kaur and its publicity (105)