Trucial Oman Scouts

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Proposed move of the Trucial Oman Scouts (TOS) camp (40)
• Report that no progress has been made on the Sawt Al Sahil radio project and there is a suggestion of pursuing commercial sources of funding (41)
• Suggestions made to counter any subversion among members of the TOS holding political views (48)
• Persuasive case made for proposed pay rises for the TOS (49)
• Anniversary of the battle on 26 October, fought by the Trucial Oman Scouts, and which is being commemorated in Buraimi (52)
• Possibility of sending Arab officers and potential officers to Jordan on training courses has been considered (55)
• Letter of intent to contractors for the new TOS camp being held up by the director of contracts (56)
• TOS camp at Sharjah. Financial consideration is to be given before the TOS camp is moved from Sharjah to make way for redeployment of British forces from Aden (57)
• Foreign Office Financial Control Committee. It sets out Sir Roger Allen's position on the Category A3 expenditure, which suggests that the problem is the item of £200,000 for the move of the barracks of the TOS (59)
• Suggestion that the time has come to review both the role and the purpose of the TOS and the financial arrangements which support it (61)