10. No decision need, therefore, be made yet in the case of official histories with the possible exception of the preliminary histories due for publication some time in 1949/50. We recommend that these should still be published subject. to vetting by Departments. Combined Chiefs of Staff papers 11. We have recently been approached by the Americans asking for our agreement to downgrade to unclassified a large number of Combined Chiefs of Staff papers dealing with the war period. The objections to public scrutiny of these papers are, we consider, similar to those in the case of despatches.
- Collection ID
- CAB158
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Burma Ceylon France Germany Greece India Iran Iraq Italy Malaya Sicily Syria United Kingdom Yugoslavia
- Document Reference
- CAB 158/6/41
- Document Types
- Report Correspondence
- File Reference
- CAB 158/6
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.cab158.0006.041
- Keywords
- Publications Release Of Information Classified Documents Secrecy Security Military Operations Military Intelligence Official Histories Censorship Air Intelligence Naval Intelligence
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Foreign Office Ministry of Defence Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee
- Pages
- 12
- Persons Discussed
- Valentine Boucher Alan Brooke Dwight Eisenhower William Hayter Hastings Ismay
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Military Intelligence Intelligence Organization
