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Description

A volume of meeting minutes of 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. The JIC members discussed a vast range of international and domestic issues in their meetings. In this file, subjects documented include indications of Soviet preparedness for war; precautions against sabotage and clandestine use of atomic weapons in the U.K.; travel restrictions imposed on service attachés in the U.K.; the Soviet Bloc and China; the progress of the Korean War; the threat of communist China to Southeast Asia; relations between China and the Soviet Union; arrangements for information sharing between NATO members; British relations with Israel; the encouragement and exploitation of Soviet defectors; and the employment of German scientists by British intelligence.