TOP SECRET Intelligence Committee, Middle East. The Directorate had also stated that in forwarding these extracts to the Joint Intelligence Committee, Middle East, attention should be drawn to the fact that they were a very short and generalised summary and that to apply the estimates given therein to any particular port in the Middle East was liable to be misleading. The Directorate of Atomic Energy had accordingly suggested that if the Joint Intelligence Committee, Middle East, prepared an estimate of the effect of atomic bombing on Egyptian ports, such estimate should be examined by them before it was put into use.