CONFIDENTIAL Although material was available for such a study in the War Office, it would be impossible to provide the manpower to carry it out. The War Office, therefore, recommended that full time Working Party should be formed outside the ### ### directorates. Substitute: "The objection to the employment of nonofficial workers was that the compilers of such a study would need to have a sound knowledge of the present day organisation of the Soviet Army and to have access to Top Secret and Secret material, and such knowledge would reveal the sources of our intelligence and the gaps in it.
- Collection ID
- CAB159
- Conflict
- Cold War
- Countries
- Russia Singapore United States of America
- Document Reference
- CAB 159/12/24
- Document Types
- Summary
- File Reference
- CAB 159/12
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.cab159.0012.024
- Keywords
- Assessing Enemy Strength Soviet Satellite States Soviet Strategy British Intelligence Organisation
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Foreign Office Joint Intelligence Bureau Joint Intelligence Committee (Far East) Joint Intelligence Committee (Middle East) Joint Intelligence Staff Local Intelligence Committee Ministry of Defence Security Service Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee
- Pages
- 7
- Persons Discussed
- Eric Searight Percy Sillitoe John Sinclair
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Military Intelligence Intelligence Organization
