"ملف ٢٠/٤ II الوضع في الكويت: الدستور والمجلس" [و‎‎١‎٩‎٣] (٤٠٠/٣٨٥)

SECRET
External Affairs Department.
Mote on Moha mmad Bln Barak .
1. Mohammad Bin Barak came to India in February 1941
stating that he was a patty dealer in piecegoods from Kuwait
and had come to Bombay in connection with his business.
In his younger days, it is reported that he was
fond of reading revolutionary literature and was well up in
books on Nazism and Bolshevism. He has indulged in revolu
tionary activities in Kuwait, Iraq and Syria and is by nature
restless and against any form of authority. After being
ordered to leave Kuwait he went to Iraq where, at Basra and
Baghdad, he attended meetings organised by pro-Nazi revolu
tionaries whose willing tool he became and with whom he
maintained close relations before leaving for India. In Basra
he took an active part in the conspiracy to overthrow the
Ruler of Kuwait and was also deported by the French
Authorities from Syria which place he visited three times
during 1938 and 1940. There is no doubt that he has indluged
in anti-British and pro-Nazi activities . While in Kuwait,
assisted by money received (it is now reasonably certain'
through the German Embassy in Iraq, he organised a small X
library-cum-club and began to ±xk£w twA inculcate both Nazi
and Communistic ideas among youths of the country. In Iraq
he is known to have maintained close relations with and worked
for Iraqi Nazis and other known anti-British agitators working
through the Muthanna Club in BrngakwA Baghdad (a pro-Nazi
political organisation with branches all over Ira^)* It is
even suspected that Mohammad Bin Barak was sent to India by
the Muthanna Club in order to carry on subversive activities
here. It is believed that in October 1940, he was connected
with espionage on behalf of the Italians and was in touch
with similar suspects engaged in the Dhow traffic between
Iraq, Iran and India. In 1940, he was deported from Syria
by the French authorities and while in Iraq he maintained
close relations with j^pro-Nazi Iraqis like Abdul Qadir Essa
Yab, Basra Editor of the An Nas News and also with Abdulla
al Saqar, who, at the time of the Iraq rebellion under
Rashid All al Gailani, fled to Baghdad and joined Rashid All.
2 . *or the above reasons it was decided that h*
should not be allowed during the War to remain at liberty in
Bombay and orders for his detention were passed. He was
arrested on the 17th September 1941 and was returned to Kuwait
in October 1946.