Retained by Department under Section 3(4) - Secret Intelligence Files

Document Title	Retained by Department under Section 3(4)
Reference	CAB 158/16
Document Date	9 November 1953
Conflicts	Cold War
Themes	Intelligence Organisation and Administration
Regions	Europe
Countries	Austria, Yugoslavia
Document Type	Reports, Memoranda
Organisations	Chiefs of Staff, Ministry of Defence, Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee
People	Valentine Boucher, Patrick Dean, Francis Fressanges, Eric Jones, Eric Searight, John Sinclair, Kenneth Strong, Dick White
Notes	This document was retained under Section 3(4) of the Public Records Act, 1958 in September 1996, but was released in June 2013, though some sections were withheld.

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