Abstract: This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding radio broadcasts from the USSR in the Near and Middle East.The correspondence in the file consists of a letter sent by the Foreign Office to a number of British diplomatic officials around the Middle East and responses to it from the Political Agency in Muscat and the Political Residency. The Foreign Office letter concerns ideas for countering the influence of Soviet radio broadcasts in the region and enquires what the influence of these broadcasts were in the officials' respective areas of jurisdiction.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 11; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.