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1. '206 Cypher Codes. Correspondence re.'
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- Abstract: The file comprises copies of telegrams written in cypher, some of which have the decoded words written above in pencil. The cyphers in use in the file are the Government Telegraph Code and the Indian Word Code, and correspondence from the Government of India is also included regarding the updated Indian Word Code released in 1926.Further correspondence between the Civil Commissioner at Baghdad and the Political Agent at Bahrain relates to the assignment of a word under the Indian Word Code to represent Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] in correspondence between them.Also included in the file is correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain and the Officer Commanding the 2/1st Brahmans at Muscat regarding new rates of pay for the men under his command.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 20; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 3-18; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
2. ‘File 4/2 (1.a/50) M.E.I.C. publicity’
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- Abstract: The file is about a change in administrative arrangements, following receipt of a general instruction in 1939, to send all future intelligence summaries to the new Middle East Intelligence Centre (M.E.I.C.) at Cairo.The file contains confidential, secret and most secret copy letters and telegrams, mainly from Trenchard Craven William Fowle (Political Resident in the Persian Gulf) to the Political Agent, Bahrain. The correspondence begins with a request from Fowle, asking the Political Agent, Bahrain to start sending copies of his fortnightly intelligence summaries to the newly opened M.E.I.C. Both this request and subsequent correspondence contains detailed instructions about the secure communication of intelligence reports and summaries between British officials in the Arab Gulf States and the Intelligence Centre at Cairo, including the use of cyphers and code words. The copy correspondence includes a secret telegram (T. No. 9276 dated 19 April 1941) and a most secret memorandum ( M.E.I.C./1/59 dated 21 April 1941) from the Intelligence Centre, containing instructions about the use of the code word ‘Steel’ in messages to indicate that information has been supplied by a most secret source (ff.13-17).The file also includes copies of six printed distribution lists with the security classification ‘Most Secret’, for the circulation of intelligence summaries compiled by the Political Intelligence Centre Middle East, May-June 1943.Physical description: Foliation: numbered 1 to 26 in the top right hand corner. The numbering starts at the front of the file, on the first file enclosure (f.1) and ends on the inside cover at the back of the file (f.26). The front file cover is not foliated.
3. 'File 10/23 Code Messages - BAPCO'
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- Abstract: The file contains coded messages sent to and from Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO), forwarded to the Political Agent. For security reasons, the messages were coded and the file also contains their transcriptions, mainly on the subject of oil wells maintenance in Bahrain.Physical description: The foliation is written in pencil, in the top right corner. The numbering begins on the front cover, on number 1, and runs through to 33, 34A, 34B; folios 66-69 are missing, then it carries on until folio 101, which is the last number given on the back cover of the file.
4. Ext 2747/41 'Method to be adopted in Sending telegrams to the Gulf.'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Secretary of State for India querying, and subsequently confirming, the security of sending cyphered telegrams to the Gulf by wireless.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 4; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
5. PZ 2123/40 'Wartime censorship: intercepted letters'
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- Abstract: This file contains various excerpts from, and full translations of, letters sent during the Second World War and intercepted by the Government of India. The file includes:a letter from a member of staff from LM Ericsson relating to the sale and shipping of fuses to the Royal Ministry of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones in Kabulan excerpt of a letter from an employee of the Ministry of Public Works in Kabul about the working experience of European staffa letter from Willi Berger of Kabul regarding the export of goods after the wara letter from the Ottoman Bank to Banke Millie in Kabul which includes a telegraphic key and cipher.The letters are forwarded between government officials including the Chief Censor for India; the General Staff Branch (Censor Section) at the Army Head Quarters in India; Cecil Arthur Grant Savidge (the Under-Secretary to the Government of India); and HM Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Turkey.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description 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.