Papers 69-105

This file contains cabinet memoranda for the Defence and Oversea Policy Committee from 6 April to 24 June 1965. Those relevant to the Gulf are the memoranda concerning:

• The Trucial States and UK policy towards them in the wake of increased Arab nationalism and the actions of the Arab League; and the possible setting up of a British aid consortium for the Trucial States (85, 92, 99)
• The future of the remaining British colonial territories (89)
• The future UK policy towards the Central Treaty Organisation (CENTO) (90)