Trucial Oman Scouts

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Site of the Trucial Oman Scouts (TOS) camp, located approximately six miles from Sharjah and approximately two miles from outskirts of Dubai. The Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum has not yet been approached (24)
• Trucial Oman Scouts, including a proposed draft letter to the Treasury (25)
• Evolution of Sharjah radio station. It is suggested that the whole cost should be transferred to the Counter Subversion (CS) funds (27)
• Recommendation that Foreign Office support should be given to the Ministry of Defence (MOD) in its approach to the Treasury to meet the costs of a new camp for the Trucial Oman Scouts (28)
• Discussion on the financial aspects of the proposed move of the Trucial Oman Scouts camp. The MOD are willing that the extra cost of £400,000 be split 50/50 between them and the Foreign Office (30)
• Relocation of a station for Sharjah Radio (31)
• Clarification of the policy in relation to Sharjah Radio (33)
• Strong recommendations against the reduction of TOS Rifle Squadron over the next two years. The Commander of Land Forces, Persian Gulf (CLFPG) is making a study on how to reduce expenditure by simplifying the administrative and accounts system and by replacing British-filled posts with Arab staff (36)
• Working Party's report on the Trucial Oman Scouts. This was set up in order to speed up the 'Arabisation' of the TOS (39)