'Complaint regarding repetition of "Most Secret" Foreign Office telegram'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- 'Complaint regarding repetition of "Most Secret" Foreign Office telegram'
- Date:
- 1939/1940
- Description:
- Abstract: The main focus of the file is a deciphered telegram (folio 5), sent from the Government of India External Affairs Department to the Secretary of State for India, which contains intelligence relating to a potential threat to British interests in Asia from Germany and Russia. The next letter, from Roland Tennyson Peel, Secretary for the Political Department in the India Office, complains that this telegram repeated information which his office had already received, and that this repetition could 'compromise the intelligence source'. The final letter in the file (folio 2), from Olaf Kirkpatrick Caroe in the Government of India External Affairs Department, apologises for the repetition and any trouble caused. The file was previously marked secret.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 6; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Military intelligence
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000466.0x0002bc_ar
81055/vdc_100000000466.0x0002bc_en
IOR/L/PS/12/313
IOR/L/PS/12/313