Provision of military advisers

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Letter [enclosed] from the British Ambassador C T Crowe to Sayyed Omar Saqqaf proposing terms for the provision of British military advisors to the Saudi Arabian National Guard (61)
• Prince Abdulla Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud's desire for a visit by a Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [REME] officer to advise and report on the reorganisation of vehicle spares and maintenance policy, and a Marconi representative in connection with the Higgins Report and the Saudi requirement for wireless equipment (62)
• Request by Lieutenant Colonel T N Bromage for help in renewing his children's visas and a visa for his children's new nanny (63)
• Arrangements for the payment of air fares of military advisors travelling from the UK to Saudi Arabia (64)
• Lieutenant Colonel T N Bromage and Brigadier K Timbrell not getting on. Timbrell recommended Bromage be removed from the training mission after a complaint by the Commander of the National Guard Prince Abdulla about Bromage talking to outsiders, such as Kemal Adham. Bromage denied this and suggested it was part of a plot by a former Syrian intelligence officer Ibraham Husseini (65)
• Letter from Brigadier Timbrell about various issues and projects in Saudi Arabia (66)