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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Postal and Telegraph Censorship Department, 1940-1946 Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/L/PS/12/364

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/364
Title:
PZ 1906/1940 'Persian Gulf: shipment of Political Residents' personal stores'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to the interception of mail sent by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior. Details of the intercepted mail, regarding the shipment of his personal stores, are included in the file, alongside correspondence...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Apr 1940-13 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/801

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/801
Title:
Ext 1186/43 'Transmission of mail from Bahrain Petroleum Company, Bahrain Island, to its Head Office in New York'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers regarding the transmission of internal correspondence between Bahrain and New York by the Bahrain Petroleum Company. The file covers concerns that sensitive information is being sent openly and is therefore vulnerable to enemy interception, and suggestions that future tra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1942-17 Apr 1943
Extent:
1 file (15 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/4505

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4505
Title:
Coll 44/26 ‘War. (Defense, Protective and other Measures) Censorship restrictions in the Persian Gulf.’
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to censorship restrictions on telegrams in the Persian Gulf, during the Second World War. The correspondence discusses: The Bahrain (also spelled Bahrein in the file) branch of Cable and Wireless receiving orders from Head Office not to send or accep...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Nov 1939-18 Jan 1944
Extent:

1 file (88 folios)