Political relations: Visit to Sultanate by Political Resident, Bahrain

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Conversation between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf W H T Luce and Sultan Saeed Bin Taimur on 27 March 1965. Topics of discussion include: the Sultan's plans for the summer; the financial subsidy; a draft agreement with Shell and the question of an oil advisor; the recent disturbances in Bahrain; and the development of the Sultan's administration and his request for an advisor (3)
• Nature of Britain's future relationship with the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman given the advent of oil production, including the possibility of severing the Political Residency relationship with the Sultanate and appointing an ambassador. It also discusses the intelligence relationship (4, 6-7)