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Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Commission of Inquiry into Rhodesian Oil Sanctions...
Catalogue reference: FCO 172
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FCO 172
This series contains records of the the Bingham Inquiry, set up in 1977, to investigate alleged evasion of sanctions against Rhodesia by major oil companies. The collection includes lists of documents requested and provided to the Inquiry;...
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FCO 172
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Commission of Inquiry into Rhodesian Oil Sanctions (Bingham Inquiry); Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1964-1979
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the the Bingham Inquiry, set up in 1977, to investigate alleged evasion of sanctions against Rhodesia by major oil companies. The collection includes lists of documents requested and provided to the Inquiry; correspondence files; transcripts of oral evidence; exhibits to the Inquiry; draft report; submissions; comments; documents in Portuguese from the Portuguese Government; Working Papers; non-government publications; submissions in response to Mr Bingham's letter of 27 July 1977; and chronologies. Post-publication correspondence includes a file about papers not submitted to the investigation.
This series contains records which pre-date the creation of Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Arrangement is by unregistered files and folders.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For related Rhodesia files see: FCO 36
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1968-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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160 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2020 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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No further accruals are anticipated
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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In 1977 the then Foreign Secretary David Owen appointed Lord Bingham to head an Inquiry into alleged breaches of United Nations sanctions by oil companies in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16555608/
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Commission of Inquiry into Rhodesian Oil Sanctions (Bingham Inquiry); Papers
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