21 Registry No. B 1631 || In case you have not already 'heard, I Top Secret." Secret. Confidential. La am writing to let you know about a proposed Restricted 21/1 visit by members of the American Centre me Draft. letter to J.A. Ford Esq. M.C. Bahrain will from NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN. Intelligence Agency, | both of the Office of National Estimates in the C.I.A. will arrive in Kuwait on February 4 from Cyprus (where he tells me that he will be staying with Geoffrey McDermott) and will leave Kuwait to arrive in Bahrain late at night (11.25) on February 5. arrive in Bahrain on February 5 or possibly on the evening of February 4. Both he and will leave for Aden on February 8. already has visas for Kuwait and Bahrain, and for Bahrain. 4. I have checked that their accommodation problems have already been looked after. said that in Bahrain he would be staying with the U.S. Naval Commander, In Kuwait his. accommodation is being looked after by the U.S. Consul. 5. They are anxious that they should be able Salon to talk to members of the Residency/ and of the Agency in Kuwait; I said that of course this would be perfectly straightforward. 6. Both of them are on the overt side of C.I.A. I am told, is of the Counsellor/ First Secretary level, but I do not know about Copied to: D.J. McCarthy Esg. kuwait THIS IS A COPY THE ORIGINAL HAS BEEN told me that he was only going/to. try to get some idea of conditions in the area,which at present he knows very little about. /He
