1. Air vice Marshal N.C. Ogilvie-Forbes; 2. Meeting with the Standing Group Intelligence Committee; 3. Meeting with the Chiefs of Staff; 4. Clearance with the Foreign Office of Intelligence Operations Which May Have Serious Political Consequences; 5. Command in the Mediterranean; 6. Visit of D.S.I. Canada to London; 7. Review of the Situation Round the Soviet and Satellite Perimeter and Other Sensitive Areas; 8. Soviet Strategy in the Event of General War, 1952-1955; 9. Likelihood of Total War with the Soviet Union up to the End of 1954

TOP SECRET 4. CLEARANCE WITH THE FOREIGN OFFICE OF INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS WHICH MAY HAVE SERIOUS POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES THE COMMITTEE took note of a statement by the Chairman on the procedure for clearing with the Foreign Office intelligence operations which might have serious political consequences, a record of which has been circulated separately as a Confidential Annex to those concerned. TOP SECRET 5. COMMAND IN THE MEDITERRANEAN THE COMMITTEE were informed that a personal minute from the Prime Minister to the Minister of Defence, commenting on problems affecting the Naval Command in the Mediterranean had been referred to the Chiefs of Staff+ and that the Joint planning Staff had prepared a short paper setting out the British and United States views on Mediterranean Command, and covering other points made in the Prime Minister's minute.