TOP SECRET. guesswork and could not be substantiated by intelligence: they should be provided as a basis for the studies of the Working Party on the understanding that they were not quoted outside the Official Committee on Disarmament and that no justification for the figures other than that provided would be expected. In view of the time factor, it was agreed that the draft reply should be cleared by the Director of Military Intelligence on behalf of the Committee, as soon as prepared, and that the final reply should be in the hands of the Working Party by 11.30 a.m.