Units of UK armed forces in Arabia and Persian Gulf

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Suggestion to station a tank-carrying landing ship, tank (LST) in the Gulf, in case of the need to intervene in defence of Kuwait, and the question of where to conduct exercises for the tanks and crew (17)
• Request for the LST Dieppe, sailing from Aden to carry out landings in Oman (18)
• Request from the new Political Officer with British Forces in the Arabian Peninsula (BFAP) R A Clinton-Thomas for a number of documents and reference papers [list enclosed] and details of Clinton-Thomas's visit to Aden (19)
• First visit to Muscat and Oman of the new Commander-in-Chief BFAP Air Marshall S C Elworthy (20)
• List of planned army exercises (21)
• Possibility of using armed helicopters in actions against dissident tribesmen in the Arabian Peninsula (22)
• Details of the forthcoming exercise Phantom 22 (23)
• Ground/Air Operations reports for 14 November to 19 December 1960 (24)
• Telegram giving details of a successful trial of a seaborne tank force in the Gulf (25)
• Paper detailing arrangements for the inclusion of the East African Command within the Unified Command of BFAP (26)