Chiefs of Staff Committee: Minutes of Meeting

This file contains the minutes of the Chiefs of Staff Committee’s meetings from 15 September to 21 October 1953. Those relevant to the Gulf are the minutes concerning:

• Reinforcements for the Middle East (106th)
• Operations in Trucial Oman [Trucial States] (107th)
• The Trucial States and the impact of HMG taking a firmer position on its frontier dispute with Saudi Arabia (114th)
• A peace time garrison for the Middle East (115th)
• Oil denial in the Middle East (118th)

This file also contains minutes concerning:

• Military assistance to Iraq (106th)
• Military assistance to Jordan, and the Anglo-Jordan defence board (107th, 110th, 114th)
• Defence negotiations with Egypt (108th, 109th, 113th, 115th, 118th)