1. Indications of Russian Preparedness for War; 2. Communist Influence in South and South East Asia and the Far East; 3. Evacuation of Intelligence Agencies from Germany in an Emergency; 4. Russian Electronics

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; the progress of the Korean War; evidence of Soviet assistance to North Korean and Chinese forces; the threat of communist China to Southeast Asia; operations in the First Indochina War; West German rearmament; the formation of new German intelligence services and the future of British intelligence in Germany; arrangements for information sharing between NATO members; the incorporation of Greece and Turkey into NATO; Soviet interrogation techniques; and training for British service personnel in resisting interrogation.