Visas for Persian Gulf states p.4

FO 371/148885 1960
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