Arms stockpile and their disposal

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Discussions between British Ambassador to Kuwait G N Jackson, Chief of the General Staff Major-General Mubarak Abdulla Al Jabir Al Sabah and Minister of Defence Sheikh Sa'ad Al Abdulla Al Sabah on the inclusion of stockpiled tanks in Kuwait's National Day parade
• Discussion between the Kuwait Liaison Team (KLT) and the British Embassy in Kuwait about the possibility of offering three previously loaned Centurion tanks for sale to Kuwait Army
• Proposal from the Foreign Office for the sale of 27 stockpiled and loaned tanks to Kuwait
• Meeting between Ambassador Jackson and Sheikh Sa'ad about the sale of the Centurions, Sheikh Sa'ad's acceptance of the offer and inclusion of the loaned tanks in the parade
• Letter dated 23 February 1967, from Sheikh Sa'ad to Jackson confirming the agreement
• Foreign Office proposal to offer converted Mobat anti-tank guns for sale to Kuwait Army; and an offer from the Ministry of Defence of freshly manufactured Wombat anti-tank guns
• Exchanges between J A N Graham and A J D Stirling on the RAF stockpile in Kuwait; a letter from Squadron Leader A E Wilton of Headquarters Royal Air Force Persian Gulf to the Political Residency in Bahrain on the planned disposal of the current RAF stockpile in Kuwait; the decision to retain a limited stockpile and its possible transfer to the Kuwait Air Force (KAF)
• Proposal by the Ministry of Defence for the sale of a radio vehicle trailer RVT 195 to Kuwait
• Letter from C C R Battiscombe to A Ibbott on the repurchasing of Howitzer ammunition