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FO 371/114693

Permission to ARAMCO aircraft to land at Sharjah, Kuwait and Bahrain, 1955

This file contains correspondence relating to concerns that the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) are using permission earlier granted to land aircraft in Sharjah, Kuwait and Bahrain, in order to spy on sites occupied by Petroleum Concessions Limited (1).

FO 371/109857

Notes on discussions with British firms concerned with development and investment in the Middle East, 1954

This file contains correspondence relating to: Request from the British Middle East Office to see copies of all correspondence on Gulf development (1) Account of a meeting between B A B Burrows, Mr Asquith of Robert, Benson and Lonsdale and Mr Mosley of Roland and Stone, regarding possible future investment and the setting up of a new bank in the Gulf (2) Note by P Sloman describing a conversation with Asquith on plans for development in the Gulf (3)

FO 371/109819

Political relations between Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf, 1954

This file contains correspondence relating to: Visit of the Ruler of Kuwait, Sheikh Abdulla Al Salem Al Sabah to Saudi Arabia.
FO 371/109811

Communism in Kuwait, 1954

This file contains correspondence relating to: Suggestion that Mr Coutts release information on communist activities to Sheikh Abdulla Mubarak (1) Translation of a letter from the National Committee of the Partisans of Peace in Kuwait, along with an enclosure in which the Committee requests that the editor of Al Waqt, a pro-Communist Trade Union weekly paper, publishes the letter (2)

FO 371/189485

Nuclear power generation: Persian Gulf, 1966

This file contains correspondence relating to: Suggestion by Edmund de Rothschild that two areas along the Gulf and in central Iran are suitable for desalination (1) Desalination plants in the Gulf area, including details of Nivand Company's interest in the plants and a newspaper cutting from the Tehran Journal, dated 3 July 1966, on the proposed desalting plant (3) Information received that the Central Treaty Organisation (CENTO) Research Institute of Nuclear and Applied Science in Tehran no longer exists as such and that the laboratories have been taken over by the Irania
FO 371/187678

Trucial States, 1966

This file contains correspondence relating to: The prospects of an oil strike by Meco, east of Sharjah town (Dubai) (1) Oil prospects in Dubai. It includes Continental Oil's activities (2) BP's opposition to the wishes of Continental Oil and the Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum for the rapid development of the Fateh offshore oilfield (3).

FO 371/187675

Abu Dhabi, 1966

This file contains correspondence relating to BP and Abu Dhabi. It includes: A meeting between Sir M Bridgeman of BP and Sir W Anthony on 13 October 1965 (1) Abu Dhabi Petroleum Company's (ADPC) payments to the Ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Shakhbut Bin Sultan Al Nahyan since the signing of the 50/50 agreement on 19 September 1965 (2) The Abu Dhabi marine area.
FO 371/185533

Political relations: FRG, 1966

This files contains correspondence relating to the Ruler of Fujairah Sheikh Mohammad Bin Hamad Al Sharqi's negotiations with the Germans, and on the question of federal involvement in aid to the Trucial States (1).
CO 1069/675

MIDDLE EAST 4. Dubai Harbour improvements works, 1959-60., 1959 - 1960

This file contains black and white photographs relating to the Dubai Harbour improvements works, depicting: Views of the groyne from the beach spit Beach spit and dredging for training wall No. 1 floatation channel Outer portion of training wall No. 1 and boring craft Completed sheet piling to the groyne Training wall No. 1 from chainage 500, cut-off wall and dredging plant Piling plant Training wall No. 2, the fitting of walings and tie rods Training wall No. 1 and cut off wall and from chainage 200 View of training wall No.
FO 371/179946

Ruler of Ajman, 1965

This file contains correspondence relating to the Ajman Royal Family. It includes a report by W L Tait on the visit of Sheikh Ali Bin Rashid Al Nuaimi, the eldest son of the Ruler of Ajman Sheikh Rashid Bin Humaid Al Nuaimi, to the Political Agency. It also covers the visit of Sheikh Humaid Bin Rashid Al Nuaimi to the Agency and the extent to which he can be relied on (1).

FO 371/179943

Diplomatic representation, 1965

This file relates to correspondence on the United States Consul in Dubai and the advantages of the US having a consul in Dubai (1).

FO 371/179938

Minerals, 1965

This file contains correspondence on a local contractor and merchant Nasir Abdul Latif, who is hoping to negotiate a mineral concession from the Rulers of the northern Trucial States. He has drawn up an agreement with the Ruler of Sharjah, Sheikh Khalid Bin Mohammad Al Qasimi (1).