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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Intelligence service

1. IOR/L/PS/12/768

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/768
Title:
Ext 6064/42 Pro-Axis plot in Persia; discovery of Mayer documents, etc
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, telegrams, and reports from the Government of India External Department; the Commander in Chief in the Middle East; the War Office; the Foreign Office; the British Embassy in Tehran; and the Minister of State in Cairo, regarding a German-Persian plot for a coup ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Nov 1942-21 Aug 1945
Extent:
1 file (121 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/1180

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1180
Title:
Ext 7521/46(S) 'Special distribution of Intelligence Summaries, etc.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a list of distributed Intelligence Summaries received from across regions on the Frontiers of India and related correspondence from William Millward (Government Communications Headquarters) and Eion Pelly Donaldson (India Office). The file also includes correspondence regardi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Nov 1946-12 Dec 1946
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/1194B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1194B
Title:
Ext 483/47 'Sending of Iran Intelligence Reports to Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of letters between the Secretary to the Political Resident in Persian Gulf, Bahrain, and the India Office, London. The letters are regarding Iran Intelligence Report no. CB 1885(X), which was sent to the Persian Gulf Residency. The letters specify which copies were sent to Per...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Feb 1947-7 Mar 1947
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/18/B329

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B329
Title:
Proposed Intelligence Service for the Middle East
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum is a draft scheme prepared by the War Office concerning a reconsideration of Britain's intelligence service in the Middle East. The memorandum includes sections covering British intelligence operations in Constantinople, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Southern Arabia and Somaliland, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1919
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/20/289/A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/289/A
Title:
‘Masqat Arms Traffic. 1908–1909.’
Scope & Content:
Bound volume containing two secret reports, both authored by Colonel Wilfrid Malleson (referred to as Division of the Chief of the Staff in the first report, and Assistant Quarter Master General for Intelligence in the second), and both issued by the Division of the Chief of the Staff in 1909. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1909
Extent:
1 volume (60 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/328

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/328
Title:
File 8/32 Proposals for collecting intelligence from Saudi Arabia
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the discussion over the need to gather and distribute intelligence on Saudi Arabia, including the establishment of an intelligence centre at Bahrain, due to the importance of developments there to the rulers of the neighbouring Gulf rulers and the gra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Dec 1932-14 Dec 1933
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/922

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/922
Title:
File No. 12/6 1/13 SECRET SERVICE FUNDS'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and accounts relating to the secret service expenditure available to the Political Residency and the Political Agencies in the Persian Gulf, including instructions on how it should be recorded and what it should be used for, as well as copies of the annual state...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Mar 1931-4 May 1948
Extent:
1 file (149 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/5/279

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/279
Title:
File 6/6 Proposal to post a Special Service Officer in the Gulf; appointment of Air Liaison Officer
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence pertaining to the possible appointment of a Special Service Officer. The papers detail the officer's responsibilities and also provide an overview of the political and administrative context in which the appointment was being sought by the various correspondents ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jul 1929-4 Sep 1946
Extent:
1 file (68 folios)