FO 1016/372
Kuwait Oil Company: relations with Kuwait State, 1954
This file contains correspondence relating to:
Arrangements for the Kuwait Oil Company Limited’s (KOC) representation in Kuwait, including the illness and potential replacement of the Chief Local Representative of KOC Colonel Dickson; and propaganda against the oil industry
Criticism of Dickson, including that he is ‘more sympathetic to the oriental than to the western point of view’ and the suggestion that his employment be terminated
Potential for widening KOC’s contacts with the Kuwaiti Government
Relationship of the Iraq Petroleum Company with the local economy in their areas o