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1. IOR/R/15/2/925-937

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/925-937
Title:
Bahrain Agency, Confidential Office Information Files
Scope & Content:
The thirteen surviving Information Files contain correspondence, reports and guidance relating to the following topics: British intelligence gathering in the Middle East, 1939-1943; the monitoring of anti-British news reporting in Arabic newspapers and radio broadcasts in the Gulf States, 1934-1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1939-1949
Extent:
13 files (266 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/931

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/931
Title:
File 4/10 B.B.C. broadcasts
Scope & Content:
The file contains an investigation into a news report on the radio, transmitted by the British Broadcasting Corporation (B.B.C.) Arabic Service on 10 August 1947, concerning the Sheikh of Kuwait’s visit to Saudi Arabia. The file includes: an English translation of the news broadcast, reporting ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Aug 1947-17 Sep 1947
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/932

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/932
Title:
File 4/11 Reuters Agency in Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains copy correspondence arising from a visit made by Mr Boxall of Reuters News Agency to the Political Resident at Bahrain, to discuss company business. The correspondence consists of a memorandum (reference number Residency Endorsement 431-S) and a confidential letter (Dominions O...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Mar 1947-16 Apr 1947
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/934

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/934
Title:
File 4/13 Bahrain Government press
Scope & Content:
This file contains three items of correspondence (reference numbers D.O. No.550-EL; D.O. No.C/121; No.931-EL), two of which are confidential. The correspondence took place between William Rupert Hay (Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bahrain), Cornelius James Pelly (Political Agent, Bahrai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jan 1948-4 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/935

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/935
Title:
File 4/14 Bahrain State Broadcasting Station
Scope & Content:
The file contains three items of correspondence (reference numbers D.O. Nos. 1077-9A; 668-S; C/346) between Charles Dalrymple Belgrave (Adviser to the Bahrain Government), Cornelius James Pelly (Political Agent, Bahrain) and Major A.L.A. Dredge (Secretary to the Political Resident in the Persian...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Feb 1948-5 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/925

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/925
Title:
File 4/1 (1.a/46) Arabic broadcasts by foreign stations
Scope & Content:
The file begins with a confidential circular memorandum (reference No.279-S of 1939) from Trenchard Craven William Fowle (Political Resident in the Persian Gulf), dated 30 March 1939 at the British Residency and Consulate-General, Bushire. It is addressed to the Political Agents for Bahrain, Kuw...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Mar 1939-26 June 1939
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/936

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/936
Title:
File 4/15 Sale of the "al-Arab" in Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains three items of confidential correspondence (reference numbers 127/5/48; S.O. No.C/L-203; D.O.No.C/305-9A) between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bahrain; Cornelius James Pelly (Political Agent, Bahrain) and Charles Dalrymple Belgrave (Adviser to the Bahrain Governm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Nov 1948-7 Dec 1948
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/928

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/928
Title:
‘File 4/6 (1B/1) Reports of Treaty of Alliance between U.K. and Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file contains confidential dispatch no.239 dated 25 July 1934 from Mr A.S. Calvert (chargé d’affaires, British Legation, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) to Sir John Simon (British Foreign Secretary, Foreign Office, London). Calvert also sent copies of his dispatch to the Viceroy of India and to the Po...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jul 1934 - 25 Aug 1934
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

9. 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)

10. IOR/R/15/2/937

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/937
Title:
File 4/16 Explanation and Defence of H.M.G.'s policy in Foreign Affairs
Scope & Content:
The file contains a copy telegram (reference number Intel 243) sent from the Foreign Office to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bahrain on 2 June 1949. The telegram provided a justification for the British Government's recent recognition of the Emir of Cyrenaica (eastern Libya), in th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jun 1949
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)