1. The Communist Threat to Burmese and Siamese Rice Supplies; 2. "Crachin" Scotch Mist Season in Indo-China; 3. Requests for Specimens of Captured Equipment; 4. Likely Scale of Strategic Air Attacks on Malaya and Borneo Up to the End of 1952; 5. United States O.N.E. Reports

TOP SECRET BRIGADIER JOHNSTONE stated that he was doubtful of the value of producing a further report on this subject, but agreed that the problem might come to the forefront at any time, and as such the Services should be prepared to brief their respective Chiefs on the significance of rice shortagesin the countries under consideration. There would, he thought, be no point in making a gratuitous comment at the moment, and when it did become necessary it would require careful timing. CAPTAIN BAKER-CRESSWELL recalled that in September, 1949, the Joint Intelligence Committee had produced a reporton the Implications of a Communist Success in China in which reference was made to the threat under certain circumstances to the Burmese export rice trade and the serious repercussions which would follow affecting the feed situation especially in Malaya, Ceylon and India.