mmJ l Him 954' P I Ga n 1 mus uncuHEHT '5 THE PROPERTY aF HER GOVERNMENT Thu L'irculmiun nf this paper has been limited is igmul far the p munal use uf TOP SECRET 4 Cap Ho 1 Thin docu e 1t a at l 'mattin w I incl FOL Tiff OF THE OF STAFF 11h- Final 17-1311 1360f U K ONLY Czl f GE STAFF COMMITTEE JUITT ETLFF ll TEE MILDIE leg st Tim Planning Staff - - 1 Th - Dixie - a draft mamnran wn 21 in Lllu Gulf and have invite 12m Linn-Lut- 311 - mm 11 denial rue-13111125 in 15113 a li rjufc 31 trategic REEUJ' ptl i'lu n1H T'm its submissican tn 2 11 tn - i J-aigzt Di i i mem randm 321 11 11 nilhwiul ti 1011 Uni-tea 11 II I I Ir il- l I 1 1 a 31 Jh-t in 1956 1 4 - - re have prepare- 1 a I Gil-1'1 LrllutiLI-l I 21 111 111 Lid t1 Juint Intelligence Gomit tE- the 'rr IT- - l ff1 U5 I - - w 11 1 - 11-31 GLLIL utti -L 1 5 1- - - 1 Dt 13116 I 17 it tn the 1111133 177115 fn'r Elli-111' J C- DAVIS L W I I I- 511 1 1 3 I I 1511111 5' Annex to 1 Final 1 The Fir iSL ULIlce 1 - - - 151 T on mil lhl l men I ULmittEd raft sure in the Persian Gulf Eheikh ma En 1111le Tait If ill-ll 1 - Li ut ll ier their eemmenta en 51 Elie IIa-nzn Lilrlj tlf' li l- 1131 IIJ lt-E I II I I mea mues the - L I Tram the Ti - -v - view the denial of an in the h 1 hL u in linked with aimilar engage-gt s'if Sm mm This report -- fl u- i at queetien cf nil denial in all 111The lur planning and executing eil between the Britieh end American thlelilcb bUp Hleh ut cmmnihnent tn Hiniatara ie ea 1L 4cmvz - ne it wad Enter vie-rm rebel ible for planning and executieh but the rezpenribility for dealing Jith leewl Ruler and fer giving the final were at ecmmt 1 in British Th Bauer-lean ere reep neible fer planning and fer giving the final word ef command The reepcneihility fer ealing with the Euler i baitieh I Le ligl TL Frii' the er-npu uei nun Eri L3 1411 1 plan It ll the Company's inetallatiene and tie - melieien eteree are held in Ii zani't In Erin Genernment however have pene gtnte eentrelle refinery at Beghd and nse ten the refineries at nlwand bi aerial are being and E frw eeneilered Ear these plants but as yet no plane have been made 1h n re eemnlete responsibility fer w' eneiun The Her Office With 3 e the Iraq Petroleum Campany uleum have prepared eil denial l'hL gran - - r British Before 1931 all EJlml in Iran was a Tiis ermiitment wee eeneidered I 1 ranian 011 ti de Arture ef the Angle I HE P Binge thie time no plane have 1 by greun nemelitien lternetive is air uetien V id in 1951 been made fer Oll denia The only a i 2 - 4- TOP SEQRE Saudi Arabia The Americana have an planning and exeeutiu$ 1Ete reap n ihility fur Neutral 3 rue The reapaneihility fer t Pl l'lHi a has nit Eat been agreed he he eheeutien 3 IP- 19214 the Unite- 1 Litat te full Erltiah Exacutiun f 311 er oil denial meaeuree 2% the Gulf htikh rme tr Hnneitl Bahrain and Qatar and in neutral The Uffi e agree te thie reaneet eahjeet te eertain eenaitiene and recommendatiene- The United Statea have new intimated that they Wiah ts hnl jkwmiltalka an this Subju t in 1956 The or the Fereign Ufriee memerandnm ie te eeak ministerial approval herere talk i VALUE DE GIL DENIAL _E _aaia ef C'il Denial Planning h The value er eil inetallatiene and henee the military necessity er their deetruetien will depend en the nature eenree ana maratien ef a future war The existing plane fer eil denial in the Middle East Were prepared hefere the aavent ef the thenneannelear weapen and before the retentien of the Feet plane were haeed en denial hr greuna demelitian and were dependent Upen the ee eperatien ef the eil eempaniee eeneerned etmeaniee are new empleying an inereaeing number ef leeal werkere in reepenu eihle peeitiene and planning ie therefere mere and mart dirtieult ef natienal eenaideratiene The Mi ale Eaet in Gl b l War 5 The allie nnelear capabilitf th fantatinn er the Eaeh t hag made it pagaibl fur the Allies ta adapt a mere rerward strategy fer the defenee ef the Middle East Thie strategy is baae on elding th Rnaeiane in the M untaina and attacking th ir lln with nuclear Th5 5 implementatien er thie telier make 011 danial TBaauigent hut it wenld he E keep Plans f small mimi ici EE tt rtomtlnEragendinterricient to guarantee that th Eagree line can he held- Value ef Eaet e11 te the U E S-EL -eiane were able te antenna Run ier that the peeitive value weela lie in the capture 1 tien ef refineriee te met 5 If in the event the beyond the Eagree line we eenei 0f Miadle Eaet eil tn the refined eteehe ana in the epe U E EYES ONLY TOP SECRET T i eecaar Etta E3 ued the requiremente or their middle EEG Exlsting trnn3PUPt dirriCUItE betwee Eigpg ggi Tg lf the hit-uh a rhieh would he further aggravatedag and prevent the ho ainnr from being able to move 31 Etta euld quintitles 01 011 ack t0 the U-S E R for refig i evident t rcl re th t in a war Pretraeted beyond he initgal ucl r Ghen nge invading forcee could derive reai Value 93m the F Pture or refined atocna refining '1g t and all racilitiee for the local distribution ai' ruring Eh k A MILITARY PDINT BF UIEW Method Oil Lcjiil The most e mplete method of deetrcping oil installations would he hp nuoloir hemhardment At present thde method can only bi currie bi Ly American forcee Alternative doetruction by air ucticn ueing other than nuclear weapons endld require a large number of eortiea and the diversion of eui i'ieient l orcce tn - mcet this task would aha-Bet certainly he impractieahle in the light of other operational commit- mento Oil denial however can he meet eatiefacorily carried out by ground demolition whereas demolition by nuclear hamhorament would cause irreparable damage The former method is the more economical when the co-operation of pereonael operating the inatallatiene ie aaeured and ie the only practicahle means available to the Eritieh at 1 Planning of Oil Denial by Demolition 8 In the time availahle it will not he poeeihle to provide aufficient troipe to execute all plane haeed on ground demolition in Iraql the Persian Gulf Sheikhdame and poeeihlp also in Iran Such plane can only therefore he_made fully erreotive with the cc-operation of the oil cnapaniee At trceont for eeourity reaeana planning for oil denial has had ta he reetrictcd tt British and american controlled interacts and their own naticnale This has precluded planning Ipr til denial meaeuree in the state controlled installatinno in Iraq and Iran I 9 Iraq and Iran Gil denial meaeuree in the Middle Eaet cannot be wholly unlea Etate centrallid in inotallationa in Iran Iran lncluaea' Eg ve auntriee the interests or euetainin tm nfid nce Of E e eub'ect in their weetern lli ar any a p ca h an a le table on Government level is at greaent planri g based an grDun da i in caee an proceed on such information 33 B n be Db adg if war hreake ariaee later t0 EEG thl m th b'en m d 'rt detailed demolition Elana Fave Ha- all be b mhardment may he tl JE 11111 E11 '31 1 clear iigElu gingebgtnie moat improbable that British triipg could he Eade available for 3' u- -Lat thie mig I i grigtifd kgeieted by Erltiah naval unite in he IJJ Lil Pereian Gulf a TDP SECRET A $15 71 TDF enc menial Saudi Arabia Although Eible for planning 411 denial iiag iigdi tg igi erebi a confirmation ehruld he gnu ht as been prepnred and are up tg date bathe Bueh plane heve 11 Neutral Zone A an a responsibility for quuning Gil denga haeggag g genome Nantr l EGPG 3h 1d he reached soon he noeeihlg Egg ll Elennin to ifoff Sinoe the balance of-inflnenee 1 ti l S 1 Le Amerienne it w 3huu1d noewne the regp naihilityiLul Seem legieel that they Eggegntinn Jr Authoritg 12 It has hit-'21 n-r Set 011 de ial meneuree in moiiog Egdetg inih ngig iin gEmX Unit Emma 1 C'Sp0neihilitra This Ehyulq be hired t0 The question of delegating authority eule he oonoidered when the general field of governmental 9 h d l oeted in Gloheleor is examined Additional iointo for Inelueien in the Memorandum 13 To enable military planning to in the event of it being agreed in nrinoiyle that the Britieh will nEBUme responsibility oil denial and execution in the Sheikhdome the rDlluWi E points ehould he in All outstanding matters concerning legal eompeneetory nepeete of the oil denial meneuree should he resolved before the responsibility for n11 deninl ie transferred to the'militery plannere The to maintain the closest linieon with the United Etntee enthoritiee throughout the etegee of military planning and e eontion EDI-13111 ENE Tu We conclude that - Deepite the better prospeote of the forward etrntegy there is still a need to plan oil denial meneuroe whieh should be limited to - destroying refined etooke ii dienhling refining plant and eqniPMent ipment leetroying the fm ilitl and eqn 111 forihe loonl distribution of refined oils and thet the meet suitable method of denying oil is by ground nolition - 5 U K EYES ONLY EEGRET TOP SE REE U K is suitable fur suhmissisn ts Ministers prsvidsd it is made clear tha - if all oil dsnisl plans are ta ha I class lisissn with United nuthuritiss ans nil company s11 sf military planning nn is essential I ii all matters concerning legal sud aspects sf nil cninl my sures must bs resolved befsrs Ini itnry planning hsgins Th ssirnhility sf Amsricsn reap nsihility fur nil isninl in Iran sn the Neutral Ennr Uhu ld hs sxnminsd at the talks In the sf Iraq sun responsibility shu-l cuntinns The Amsrissns shnul be asked tL G iirm that plans been for 011 dsninl in Saudi Arabia - 6 - TGIF EEGRE SECRET U K 0 The Memorandum ia suitable for t3 Ministers provided it is mmdp ulaar thnt if all mil danial plans are ta be close with th U ita nuthuritiea and nil throughput all Etag 0f miJiLury planning executiun ia IJEU nti lq ii all AuLptunding matters concerning legal rin uciul mud campens tury a pect Bf Gil denial mu sures muat ha rpaolved hefnre mi itarp planning begins The desirability pf American r apanaibility for oil denial measures in Iran and th 'Heutrnl Epnu shuuld ha examined at th talks In the case pf Iraq GEE r spnnaihilit Ehw-1 Gnutinuc Th3 Emeri ans Bhuul be aske tL cjnrirm that plans have been prepared far 011 denial menauras in Sau i Arabia - Tg p SEGRET