Political relations between Gulf States and USA

This file concerns the political relations between the Gulf and the US. It contains correspondence relating to:

• How overflight and landing clearances for US military aircraft might be handled after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) becomes independent
• Dr Joseph Churba’s textbook regarding the events in the periphery of the Arabian Peninsula, including a detailed analysis by J P Bannerman, and a letter by Political Military Attache Robert J Murray to David Hall stating that Dr Churba is working on a textbook to be used by military students
• Qatar following Bahrain into separate independence
• The US’s help over Gulf affairs
• An extract from a talk with the US National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger discussing US-Saudi Arabian relations
• A newspaper cutting from the Scotsman titled ‘Agnew visit seen as prelude to US Gulf domination’, dated 9 July 1971
• The US Secretary of State William P Rogers’s visit to Saudi Arabia in May 1971 where he discussed the Arab-Israeli boundary dispute and Gulf affairs with King Faisal Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud
• The US’s interest in Gulf policy, and British Gulf policy
• British defence problems in the Indian Ocean
• The possibility of the US offering aid and technical assistance to the Gulf
• The US’s views on the formation of the UAE
• Qatar and Bahrain’s eligibility for the UN
• The US Under Secretary of State John Irwin hoping HMG would allow a civilian Iranian presence in the Gulf Islands before handing over responsibility
• The problems arising from Iran’s claims to the Gulf Islands
• The US’s representation in the Gulf
• A debate over the future British and American policy towards Saudi Arabia.