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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Middle East Intelligence Centre, 1939-1943 Digitised Content Platform Qatar Digital Library

1. IOR/L/PS/12/320

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/320
Title:
PZ 7715/39 'Middle East Intelligence Centre: Anglo Egyptian Censorship; information summaries'
Scope & Content:
This summary, compiled by the Middle East Intelligence Centre, uses information received through Anglo-Egyptian censorship to provide a picture of various subjects relating to Nazi Germany including: Germany. Internal Conditions; conditions in neutral territories; military information; economic ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Nov 1939-11 Dec 1939
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/359

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/359
Title:
PZ 1673/40 'Activities of ADC to Shaikh of Kuwait'
Scope & Content:
This file contains translated correspondence sent between Izzat Mohamed Jaafar, the Aide-de-Camp and Private Secretary to the Shaikh of Kuwait, and George Maratos of Alexandria. The correspondence relates to the activities of Jaafar, in particular his negotiations over the purchase of arms, and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Mar 1940-22 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2168

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2168
Title:
Coll 6/93(2) 'SYRIA: Situation in – after capitulation of France, 1940. Incl. Proclamation of Independence.'
Scope & Content:
Following on from an earlier file (IOR/L/PS/12/2166), this file concerns British policy relating to Syria, following the success of the British-Free French military campaign in Syria [Operation Exporter]. (The abbreviation 'Incl.' in the title stands for 'Including'). The date range of this fil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 Jul 1941-12 Dec 1944
Extent:
1 file (311 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/660

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/660
Title:
‘File 28/1 J Sabotage to oil wells, etc’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence and notes containing guidance, issued in response to reports from the War Office, of German plans to sabotage oil fields and refineries and blow up shipping. The file includes: a copy of a telegram from MICE (Middle East Intelligence Centre) in Cairo,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Dec 1939-10 Sep 1940
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/691

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/691
Title:
‘File 28/10 Anti-British activities in Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to reports about and enquiries made into individuals at Bahrain, or travelling to Bahrain, and allegations of their anti-British activities. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Agent at Bahrain (Major Reginald George Evelin Willia...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 May 1941-22 Jun 1942
Extent:
1 file (34 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/926

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/926
Title:
‘File 4/2 (1.a/50) M.E.I.C. publicity’
Scope & Content:
The file is about a change in administrative arrangements, following receipt of a general instruction in 1939, to send all future intelligence summaries to the new Middle East Intelligence Centre (M.E.I.C.) at Cairo. The file contains confidential, secret and most secret copy letters and telegr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Aug 1939- 26 Jun 1943
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)