FCO 8/687
Rail link from Kuwait to Basra, 1968
This file contains correspondence relating to:
Proposal to link Kuwait to the Iraqi railway system at Umm Qasr; and perhaps to Saudi Arabia at Riyadh and Dhahran
Enquiry about reports on the military implications of linking Kuwait to the Iraqi system
Letter from A Ibbott to D A J West on commissioning an authoritative study of the implications
