British forces

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Clearance of the Special Air Service (SAS) Exercise Dyne with the Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah Sheikh Saqr Bin Mohammad Al Qasimi and the Ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan with an outline of the programme and training areas for Dyne
• Foreign Office agreement to Special Army Volunteer Reserve's Exercise Ever Ready XIV
• Clearance given by HM Political Agency Dubai to the Ministry of Defence for the Inter Service Expedition by dhow from the Trucial States to the UK referred to as Exercise Sinbad
• Meeting on the future of British support for local forces and secondment policy in the Gulf, forming a section of what will eventually become a tripartite paper on the southern Gulf. The topics include: Muscat and Oman, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi and the Trucial Oman Scouts
• Political clearance of SAS Exercise Gold Leaf and a general outline of the Exercise
• Exchange between Frank Cooper of the Ministry of Defence and R A Sykes of the Foreign Office about local police and military forces, intelligence and communications in the Gulf
• Internal minute about retired British officers serving in the armed forces of other countries
• Notice of a planned 1st Battalion Queen's Regiment Exercise in the Trucial States
• Appointment of Brigadier A J Archer OBE as Commander of Land Forces Persian Gulf
• Ministry of Defence White Paper on deployment of the armed forces at 1 January 1968
• Proposal for a joint Royal Navy-Imperial Iranian Navy exercise following Khargex XI, involving HMS Phoebe and HMS Tartar and the two Iranian frigates Bayandor and Naghdi
• Planning for 1 Queen's Copper Kettle and Silver Dollar exercises in the Gulf States
• Paper on the continued provision of British military personnel for local forces in the Gulf
• Clearance for Pottage I, Attend, Brandean and Pottage II exercises in the Gulf
• Letter from Commander of British Forces Gulf Air Vice Marshal S B Grant to Assistant Chief of Defence Staff at the Ministry of Defence on 'Aid to Local Forces', with annexes on 'Types of Assistance by British Forces to Local Forces in the Gulf and Reciprocal Benefits to British Forces Gulf from Local Rulers' and 'Supplies and Services Provided by the Army and RAF to Sultan's Armed Forces, Sultan of Oman's Air Force and Abu Dhabi Defence Force'
• Instructions for the recovery of charges for aero-medical evacuation at Sharjah
• Paper titled 'Persian Gulf - Future of our Support for Local Forces and Secondment Policy'