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181. IOR/L/PS/10/839

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/839
Title:
File 3467/1919 'MESOPOTAMIA POLICE REPORTS'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains weekly police reports from the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Baghdad, covering events in Iraq [sometimes referred to in the volume as Mesopotamia] under British occupation in 1919-20, including during the Iraqi Revolt. The reports contain intelligence about the movements ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 May 1919-4 Jan 1921
Extent:
1 volume (639 folios)

182. IOR/L/PS/10/859

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/859
Title:
File 5257/1919 'Persia: the Military Commission'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes. It mainly covers conversations between British officials regarding military affairs in Persia [Iran]. Related matters of discussion include the following: appointment and nomination of administrative officers, mainl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1919-19 May 1922
Extent:
1 volume (258 folios)

183. IOR/L/PS/10/966

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/966
Title:
File 566/1921 ‘Persia: military Attaché’s intelligence summaries’
Scope & Content:
This volume is a compilation of intelligence summaries on Persia [Iran] between August 1920 and October 1923. The intelligence summaries are mostly divided into monthly or weekly reports, regarding different aspects of the social, economic and political situation in Persia. The intelligence summ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Sep 1920-28 Nov 1923
Extent:
1 volume (403 folios)

184. IOR/L/PS/10/972

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/972
Title:
File 1341/1921 Pt 1-2 'MESHED CONSULAR & INTELLIGENCE DIARIES (1921-22)'
Scope & Content:
The volume relates to domestic and foreign affairs in Khorassan [Khorasan], as observed by British representatives based in Meshed [Mashhad, also known as Mashad or Meshad]. It comprises two parts as follows: IOR/L/PS/10/972/1: Part 1, ‘Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-22’ (ff 177-716) IOR/...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1921-Jan 1923
Extent:
1 volume (718 folios)

185. IOR/L/PS/12/313

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/313
Title:
Complaint regarding repetition of "Most Secret" Foreign Office telegram
Scope & Content:
The main focus of the file is a deciphered telegram (folio 5), sent from the Government of India External Affairs Department to the Secretary of State for India, which contains intelligence relating to a potential threat to British interests in Asia from Germany and Russia. The next letter, from ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Oct 1939-17 Jan 1940
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

186. IOR/L/PS/12/343

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/343
Title:
PZ 1125/40 'German propaganda in the Near East'
Scope & Content:
This document, written by Basil Cochrane Newton (the British Ambassador at Baghdad), outlines concerns that Shakib Arslan is assisting the German Government in planning and organising uprisings in Syria, Iraq, Transjordan and Palestine, and that he is in correspondence with the Grand Mufti of Je...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Feb 1940-28 Feb 1940
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

187. IOR/L/PS/12/347

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/347
Title:
PZ 1217/1940 'Persia: Kurdistan tribal situation'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to the tribal situation in Kurdistan in 1933, and an alleged increase in Kurdish nationalist feeling in 1940 in Iraq and Iran. The main correspondents are Alan Charles Trott (Military Attaché in Tehran) in 1933, and Reader William Bullard (HM Minister at Tehran...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Aug 1933-16 Mar 1940
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

188. IOR/L/PS/12/365

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/365
Title:
PZ 2031/1940 'Staff tour to Kuwait and Bahrain for reconnaissance for landing of mechanised forces'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to a reconnaissance mission to Kuwait by British officers. The correspondence mainly focuses on the fact that the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf was not informed of the tour in advance. The main correspondents are the Political Resident, the Government...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Apr 1940-23 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

189. IOR/L/PS/12/870B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/870B
Title:
Ext 5821/43 'General Hurley's mission to Persia and China'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers that discuss the visit by American President Roosevelt, and General Patrick Jay Hurley to Afghanistan, Persia, as part of a broader trip to China and the 'Eastern Theatre' of the Second World War. The papers primarily consist of British intelligence reports on the exchan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Oct 1943-21 Mar 1944
Extent:
1 file (40 Folios)

190. IOR/L/PS/12/1167

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1167
Title:
Ext 6116/46(S) 'Secret Weekly Political Intelligence Summaries, nos 356-416, August 1946-November 1947'
Scope & Content:
This file contains a set of Weekly Political Intelligence Summaries published by the Foreign Office. The summaries are numbered, and begin from 356 at the back of the file, and end with number 416 at the front. The weekly reports contain military and political intelligence spanning all theatres o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Sep 1946-14 Nov 1947
Extent:
1 file (478 folios)