Minutes of the Fortieth Meeting of the Committee (Deputy Directors (O and S)), Held in Conference Room "G", of the Ministry of Defence, S.W.I, on Friday, 21st April, 1950 at 10.15 a.m.

SECRET It was also agreed that, in the meanwhile, the question of the form of Service representation in Warsaw could be reviewed by the Service Attaches Sub-Committee. THE COMMITTEE:- (1) Invited the Foreign Office to inform His Majesty's Embassy in Warsaw as at 'X' above. (2) Instructed the Service Attaches Sub-Committee to review the form of Service representation on the staff of His Majesty's Embassy in Warsaw in the light of the suggestions put forward by the Embassy, and to report. 2. PASSING OF INFORMATION TO THE SECRET WEST GERMAN AUTHORITIES. THE COMMITTEE considered a minute+ by the Secretary covering a report≠ by the Joint Intelligence Committee, Germany, requesting the authority of the Committee to the passing of certain information to the West German Federal Office and to its Land counterparts to enable them to perform their tasks in the furtherance of the protection of the Constitution. In discussion, it was pointed out that the information concerned was envisaged as consisting initially of basic Order of Battle material concerning the German Communist Party and its affiliated organisations in Western Germany, and of other information on that subject which would assist the Federal Office and its Land counterparts to carry out their duties. It was not considered that information which was of primary interest to the Services should be passed to the West German authorities. said that his Department had no objection to the proposals provided the procedure in paragraph 3 of the report was maintained, namely that no intelligence originating from agents' reports would be passed unless first agreed with the Head of M.I.6 in Germany. MR. CAREY-FOSTER said that it would be useful if M.I.6 reports received in the Foreign office could, where possible, indicate whether the information contained therein had been passed to the Germans, although it was appreciated that most of these reports were in a collated form. MR. HOLLIS referred to paragraph 6 of the report which stated that in due course it would also be necessary to pass, with the agreement of the Chancery Office at Wahnerheide, information concerning the Eastern Zone of Germany to the Federal Ministry for All-German Affairs. The Security Service considered that there might be some advantage in passing this information as soon as possible and he suggested that this point should be brought to the attention of the Joint Intelligence Committee, Germany. + J.I.C./617/50. ≠ J.I.C. (Germany) (50) 63 (Final). -2-