'Activities of Foreign Agents in Saudi Arabia'

Title:

'Activities of Foreign Agents in Saudi Arabia'

Contributor:

British Legation to Saudi Arabia (correspondent)
Political Resident, Persian Gulf (correspondent)
Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (correspondent)
Gray, Mackenzie and Company Limited, shipping agents (correspondent)

Date:

1947/1948

Description:

This file concerns suspicions of foreign agent activity in Saudi Arabia. Folios 2-5 and 8 concern suspicions held by C S Freebury of Gray Mackenzie and Company Limited at Ras Tanura, with regards to Mr Jean de Kuharski and Mr Pixton (Polish and English citizens respectively, who are said to be making a documentary film about the life of Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]), and an American named William Frary. Folios 6-7 concern information received with regards to three men (two Palestinian Arabs and a Bulgarian) who have been trained in a Russian military intelligence school and who are seeking work in Aramco at Dhahran (al-Ẓahrān). The file contains correspondence between Cornelius James Pelly, Political Agent at Bahrain; Lieutenant-Colonel William Rupert Hay, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bahrain; C S Freebury of Gray Mackenzie and Company Limited at Ras Tanura; His Majesty's Minister at Jedda; and Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Bahrain Government.1 file (8 folios)The papers are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. File notes appear at the rear of the file.Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover on folio 1 and terminates at the back cover on folio 10; 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:

Subversive activities

Geographic region:

Ras Tanura
Dhahran

Extent:

1 file (8 folios)

Rights:

Creative Commons Non-Commercial Licence
Open Government Licence

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000241.0x0002b0_ar
81055/vdc_100000000241.0x0002b0_en
IOR/R/15/2/481

Is part of:

British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers

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