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DEFE 4/80

Chiefs of Staff Committee: Minutes of Meeting, 1955 Nov 8

This file contains the minutes of the Chiefs of Staff Committee’s meetings from 10 October to 17 November 1955.
FO 464/50

Arabia: historical summary of events in the Persian Gulf Sheikhdoms and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, 1953-1964; volume 1, chapters 1-6, 1967 Jan 01 - 1967 Jan 31

This file contains Volume I of a 'Historical summary of events in the Persian Gulf Shaikdoms and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, 1953-64'.
FO 464/47

Arabia: historical summary of events in the Persian Gulf Sheikhdoms and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, 1928-1953, 1953 Jan 01 - 1953 Dec 31

This file contains Volume I of a 'Historical summary of events in the Persian Gulf Shaikdoms and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, 1928-1953'.
DEFE 5/44

Nos 1 - 100. (Described at item level), 1952 Jan 1-1953 Feb 17

This file contains the Defence Chiefs of Staff Committee memoranda from 1 January 1953 to 17 February 1953 concerning global strategy.
PREM 15/538

UK policy and military presence in Persian Gulf: discussions on Union of Arab Emirate states; correspondence with Carol Mather MP, 1970 Jun 25-1971 Jan 10

This file concerns UK policy in the Gulf, the military withdrawal scheduled for 1971 and proposals for establishing a Union of Arab Emirates.
FCO 8/902

Trucial States police, 1967-1968

This file relates to police forces in the Trucial States.
FCO 8/81

Visit by Chief of Defence Staff, 1968

This file contains correspondence relating to: The paper produced in connection with the visit of the Under-Secretary of State for Defence for the Royal Air Force to the Persian Gulf, June 1968, with background brief and personality notes.
FCO 8/80

British forces, 1968

This file contains correspondence relating to: Paper titled 'Persian Gulf - Future of our Support for Local Forces and Secondment Policy' Training of British units in the Gulf, 1968-69 and the outline of plans for 1969-70 Letter from the Ministry of Defence to the Treasury concerning 'Areas where difficulties are being or may be experienced in filling Seconded Posts', including sub-sections on the Trucial Oman Scouts, Abu Dhabi Defence Force, the Sultan's Armed Forces (SAF), and Libya Confidential Far East Command Exercise Shadow, September to October 1968 'Provision of Military

FO 1016/497

Muscat: internal political situation, 1956

This file relates to the internal political situation in Muscat. It contains correspondence on: Measures taken from various reports given on arms coming from Buraimi Reports on fighting taking place at Tawi Silaim [Tawi Salim] in Sharqiya Confirmation that Major Dennison has been wounded and there have been further casualties after attempting to recover a broken down vehicle between the villages of Ghabi and Mintirib. Aircraft have been sent to Ibri for urgent casualty evacuation.
FO 1016/500

Muscat - Trucial States boundary: Wadi Kaur, 1956

This file contains correspondence on:A report that people in northern Beni Ka’ab [Bani Ka'ab] territory are being told to leave unless they declare an allegiance to SharjahThe illness of Sheikh Abdulla Bin Salem Al Ka'abi and his request to be relieved of his Sheikhdom; and the report that Sheikh Abdulla was selling some of the rifles he had received from the Sultan of Muscat and OmanThe frontier claim of the Ruler of Sharjah in the Wadi Quor [Wadi Kaur]The movement of a Trucial Oman Scouts (TOS) squadron to Khorus in the Wadi Kaur; and the question of the precise whereabouts of KhorusThe arre
FO 1016/736

Trucial Oman Scouts: possible retention in Abu Dhabi, 1966 Jan 01 - 1966 Dec 31

This file relates to the organisation and administration of the Trucial Oman Scouts (TOS).
FO 1016/360

Murder of British officers by Aden is of Trucial Oman Levies at Buraimi, 1954

This file concerns the case of three Adenis of the Trucial Oman Levies (TOL) who shot and killed a British officer, a RAF doctor and a Palestinian Arab officer, and injured two British non-commissioned officers, while within Muscat territorial limits in Buraimi.