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Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS/12/3709-3976 Language English Subject Political intelligence

1. IOR/L/PS/12/3897

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3897
Title:
Coll 30/160(2) 'Measures to influence minor Powers & Arab States in time of War. Deputation of British Officer to RIYADH. (Capt G. S. de Gaury).'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the appointment of Captain Gerald Simpson Hillairet Rutland Vere de Gaury (formerly, the Political Agent, Kuwait) as Political Officer at Riyadh (1939-40). The appointment of a Political Officer, under the orders of HM Minister, Jedda, was proposed in 1939 as a special measure ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Apr 1939-21 Nov 1941
Extent:
1 file (139 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/3963

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3963
Title:
Coll 30/219 'Affairs in Qatar'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, reports, and intelligence summaries, sent to the India Office, and later the Foreign Office, concerning affairs in Qatar. The reports refer frequently to the 'unsatisfactory' state of internal affairs in Qatar. The papers include: reports by the Political Agent...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Nov 1941-7 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/3964

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3964
Title:
Coll 30/220 'Kuwait: General Relations with'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns Kuwait affairs. The papers include a report dated 9 May 1944, by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Geoffrey Prior, on a visit to Kuwait. The report includes details of conversations between Prior and the Shaikh of Kuwait [Aḥmad al-Jābir...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1944-13 Jan 1945
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)