'File 28/10 (b) Bonafides of C.A.S.O.C. [California-Arabian Standard Oil Company]...

The file contains correspondence and other papers relating to investigations made by the Political Agency in Bahrain, the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC), the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) and British Government departments, into CASOC and BAPCO employees suspected of having anti-British and pro-Axis sympathies, or displaying other instances of irregular behaviour. The file includes:. lists of CASOC employees, sent by Floyd William Ohliger and C A Rodstrom of CASOC, to the Political Agent, dated June to July 1940 (ff 4-7, ff 8-11, ff 12-13, f 20); correspondence from June to October 1940, between Ohliger and the Political Agent or Assistant Political Agent, relating to a CASOC employee known to have expressed pro-Nazi sympathies prior to the war (f 14), and his subsequent repatriation to the USA on 'medical grounds' (f 31) with a request that he be kept under observation on the passage back to the United States (f 32); a letter from the Passport Officer at Bahrain, dated June 1940, containing information on four 'Zubairies' [Iraqis] employed by CASOC at Alkhobar [Al-Khubar], who are known to hold anti-British views (ff 15-16); correspondence from June and July 1940 between the Intelligence Centre of the Home Department, Government of India, and the Political Agency, relating to a piece of intercepted post addressed to a BAPCO employee, containing a Croat newspaper carrying a pro-German article (f 21, f 27); 1941-1942 correspondence between the Political Agent and others, including the Collector of Karachi, Sidney Ridley, relating to the case of an American BAPCO employee who married an Anglo-Indian woman while convalescing from an illness in India, and who subsequently returned to Bahrain and ceased paying maintenance to his wife, whom he left behind in Bombay. Correspondence includes: background information of the American and his family (ff 36-37); the circumstances surrounding his marriage (49-51), including a handwritten copy of his marriage certificate (f 46); Agency notes regarding Indian Divorce Law and its applicability in Bahrain (ff 22-26); correspondence relating to a Caltex employee at Karachi bound for Bahrain, known to be drinking and fraternising with military and naval servicemen (ff 52-53)

The file's contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end. The file notes at the end of the file (ff 55-58) mirror the chronological arrangement.

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