مجموعة ٨٣/٥ "مرافق التزود بالوقود الخاصة بسلاح الجو الملكي وفيلق النقل بالجيش الأمريكي في البحرين" [و‎‎١‎٢‎٨] (٤٢٩/٢٥٥)

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12th June, 1%4.
You vdll by this time have had a copy of our telegram Sec.X
314 of 10th June about the Bahrein Petrol Tanks. This is the best
answer I can give to your letter of 6th June, and to Berthoud*s letter
of 2nd June.
I should like, however, to go over the sequence of events
in outline, in view of the surprise which both Berthoud and yourself
have felt over the action by idr Headquarters in asking BAPCO H to act
as their agents for the maintenance of P.A.P. tank installations at
Miharraq and for the delivery of aviation spirit therefrom into TL A. p.
refuellers." _
7/e here have examined the telegrams afresh, and the notes of
oui discussions, and we think that Air Headquarters have not really
acted contrary to instructions. Indeed these particular points were
nee dealt with in the instructions. You will remember how at first we
were advised that we had no case legally and that the Bahrein- Gonpary
could make good their claim to run the entire business. At that
stage we did our best r to safeguard the position by the action detailed
in our telegram of 13th H ardh, Sec. X. 757. In brief, the land would be
leased by us and the tanks would be our property. As a matter of
expediency, however, we would ask the Buhrein Gompary to instal the
tanks as our agents for the works. In actual fact the B.A.F.
installed the tanks themselves.
I do not remember whether at that stage we discussed
maintenance oi tanks and the re-fuelling of the individual aircraft. I
don f t think we did. Anyhow it came to our knowledge within a few days
that the Anglo-Iranian Oil Conpany were carrying out the re-fuelling of
aircraft at Bahrein on behalf of the H. A. F. , using their own re
fuelling vehicles and personnel. By this was meant the drawing of X
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