"ملف 10/5 شفرات بابكو" [و‎‎٢] (١٠٨/٥)

Confidential
Ko. 0/476
Political policy,
Bahrain, the 7th April 1943.
Political A
To
The Honourable the Political eaident
in the Persian C ?ulf f
Camp Bahrain*
i
» ,, ,i wwlOM o copy of o letter No. P"-82S Jpted the 4th
j ril 1943 which I have received from the Bahrain Petrolemn
Company Liaited.
2. The great majority of th'i Company's cables to New
York involve references, direct or Indirect, to questions
ox personnel, food supply, oil production, shipping, tools
and machinery, etc. Censorship in Bahrain ensures that
Infornation of potential use to the enes^y is not sent by
Cable and ireless but this restricts to a degree which the
ompany find most embarrassing the scope of the references
which they can male to New York.
3. Cables from the Company to New York, other than those
>hlch can without objection be sent en clair, may be divided
into two categories t- (1) security cables, i.e. cables con
taining information which is not secret and could not by iw
self be of direct use to the enemy, but which, taken in con-
Junction with other information available to the enemy, mirht
prove useful to him; and (2) secret cables i.e. cables cc^
taining information which would be of direct use to the
4. If the Company's present proposal is approved they
would continue to send secret cables through the Navy or,
occasionally, if political matters were beintf discussed,
through the Political Agent. They wish, however, to send
security cables by means of a secret Company code which
would have, for purposes of further security, a transposition
cypher superimposed, lioch cables, I should add, which deal
mainly with technical oil matters, cannot conveniently be
transmitted in service codes.
5- ^he Company have, of course, no objection to all their
cables bein>; censored in Tiahrain before transmission.
6. It is understood that if the Company are permitted
to transmit messages in code from Bahrain the United States
authorities will agree to their reception at the other end.
7. I shall be grateful to be informed as soon as possible
what reply 1 should send to the Company's reference. 1 trust
that I may be authorised to give a favourable reply.
enemy.
Sd/- E. Be Wakefield
Political Agent, Bahrain.