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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Military intelligence

91. IOR/L/PS/12/3508B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3508B
Title:
Coll 28/97A ‘Persia; Tehran. Air Attache’s Weekly Intelligence summary.’
Scope & Content:
Fortnightly secret summaries (monthly from September 1948) compiled by the Air Attaché at the British Embassy in Tehran, Persia [Iran]. The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/97A ‘Perisa; Tehran; Air Attache’s Weekly Intelligence Summaries’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3508A). The reports co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Apr 1948-28 Sep 1949
Extent:
1 file (97 folios)

92. IOR/L/PS/12/3517

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3517
Title:
Coll 28/106 ‘Persia. Infiltration of British agents.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, some marked Most Secret, discussing ways in which British agents could be deployed in Persia [Iran] and other countries in the region (Iraq, Afghanistan) to counter German influence during the Second World War. The correspondence discusses: how British firms operating in Iran cou...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jun 1941-27 Aug 1941
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

93. IOR/L/PS/18/B213

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B213
Title:
‘Notes and private telegram from the Viceroy regarding the future settlement of Eastern Turkey in Asia and Arabia.’
Scope & Content:
The papers comprise as follows: A note by Sir (Frederic) Arthur Hirtzel, Secretary, Political and Secret Department, India Office, dated 14 March 1915, indicating factors to be considered in ensuring Basra’s future immunity from Turkish authority, organised under a number of subheadings: geograp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 file (10 folios)

94. IOR/L/PS/18/B217

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B217
Title:
‘Policy in the Middle East. I. Memorandum by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Mark Sykes.’
Scope & Content:
Secret memorandum, prepared by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Mark Sykes. The report is preceded by a letter from Sykes to Major-General Charles Edward Callwell, Director of Military Operations, War Office, London, dated 15 November 1915, which includes Sykes’s opinion on the occupation of Ahwaz, and an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 file (7 folios)

95. IOR/L/PS/18/B218

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B218
Title:
‘Policy in the Middle East. II. Select Reports and Telegrams from Sir Mark Sykes.’
Scope & Content:
Secret report on British policy in the Middle East, divided into two sections (reports and telegrams) sent by Sir Mark Sykes during 1915, while on his tour of the Middle East, on behalf of the de Bunsen Committee. Report no. 4 (Secret), dated 12 June 1915 from Athens, reporting on an interview h...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 file (9 folios)

96. IOR/L/PS/18/B358

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B358
Title:
"Situation in Middle East" (Note by Major Bray, Political Intelligence Officer, attached to India Office)
Scope & Content:
Intelligence report by Major Norman Napier Evelyn Bray, Political Intelligence Officer attached to the India Office, on Soviet activities and influence in the Middle East and the implications for British interests in the region. The document was prepared as a departmental minute. It discusses s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1920
Extent:

1 file (15 folios)

97. IOR/L/PS/18/C30

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C30
Title:
Notes on the Persian Army
Scope & Content:
The memorandum outlines the size and composition of the Persian Army; this includes a list of the regiments currently in service. It also outlines the remuneration provided to both officers — of various ranks — and private soldiers. In addition, the armaments in use by both the infantry and the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1880
Extent:
3 folios

98. IOR/L/PS/18/C32

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C32
Title:
Report on the North-Eastern Frontier of Persia and the Tekeh Turkomans
Scope & Content:
The memorandum is a report authored by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Edward Stewart, Bengal Staff Corps, dated 4 July 1881. Its purpose being to convey the results of his intelligence gathering mission to the North-Eastern Frontier of Persia. The report largely consists of a narrative detailing St...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jul 1881
Extent:
25 folios

99. IOR/L/PS/20/7

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/7
Title:
Report on Fars by Captain A T Wilson, Indian Political Department
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of a report on Fars (a province of Persia) was written by Captain Arnold Talbot Wilson, Deputy Civil Commissioner in the Indian Political Department (General Staff Branch), and was published in Simla at the Government Monotype Press. The volume is divided into subject sectio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:

1 volume (196 folios)

100. IOR/L/PS/20/57

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/57
Title:
Who's Who in Aden and Western Arabia
Scope & Content:
The Who's Who in Aden and Western Arabia comprises a biographical dictionary of individuals connected with the fall of the Sultanate of Lahej [Laḩij] to Ottoman forces in July 1915. Most of the individuals are key members of the Subaihi tribe; a breakdown of the sections of the tribe is given...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:

1 volume (67 folios)