'Proposed Intelligence Service for the Middle East'
IOR/L/PS/18/B329
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The record is made up of 1 file (5 folios). It was created in Sep 1919. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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This printed memorandum is a draft scheme prepared by the War Office concerning a reconsideration of Britain's intelligence service in the Middle East. The memorandum includes sections covering British intelligence operations in Constantinople, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Southern Arabia and Somaliland, the Mediterranean, the Malay Straits (due to their connection with Hadramaut [Ḥaḍramawt]), Muscat and Zanzibar, India, Persia, Europe, and London. The establishment of; 'Arbur' branches 'throughout the Mohammedan theatres with a branch in London' is proposed. An explanatory diagram accompanies the memorandum on folio 69. 'A map of the World: Spheres for Middle East Intelligence' which also accompanied the memorandum has been separated and filed as 'IOR: Maps W/LPS/18B.329 (i)'.
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- 1 file (5 folios)
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Foliation: The foliation for this sequence commences at folio 66, and terminates at folio 70, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between folios 7-153; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.
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- English in Latin script
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- British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.
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- IOR/L/PS/18/B329
- Date(s)
- Sep 1919 (CE, Gregorian)
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- IOR/L/PS/18/B329
- Title
- 'Proposed Intelligence Service for the Middle East'
- Pages
- front, 66r:70r, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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