A volume of reports commissioned for the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC). The JIC was formed of representatives from the intelligence services, the armed services, and the Foreign Office. Its purpose was to assess military, security, and foreign policy requirements and coordinate Britain's intelligence organisations accordingly. A vast range of international and domestic issues are investigated and analysed in the JIC's reports. Subjects covered in this file include Soviet policy on the formation of a Jewish state in Palestine; Soviet involvement in illegal Jewish emigration from Eastern Europe; coastal survey requirements in the Middle East; security arrangements in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands; information sharing with India and Pakistan; the protection of British nationals in Iraq; the likelihood and probable course of a major war with the Soviet Union in 1957; Soviet troop movements in Eastern Europe; and the sale of scientific equipment to the Soviet Union.