1. Mobilisation Accommodation for Intelligence Agencies; 2. Charter for the J.I.C.(Germany); 3. Procedure for Handling Satellite and Communist Defectors; 4. Evasion, Escape and Rescue Planning in the Middle East and Far Eastern Theatres; 5. Liaison with C.I.A.

SECRET Ministry of Defence for the Joint Intelligence Bureau, and the former were not likely to give it up unless something better was offered to them. AIR COMMODORE JONAS strongly agreed that Latimer House should be allotted to the J.S.D.I.C.(U.K.). Most of our early intelligence in war would come from captured enemy air crews and proper accommodation for the interrogation unit would be necessary in the very early stages, if we were to avoid losing the chance of obtaining valuable intelligence. He suggested that there would be plenty of room for the Joint Intelligence Bureau at Eastcote, which had now been allocated to the Air Ministry Intelligence Directorate; the capacity of Eastcote was understood to be 1400 personnel: the Air Ministry Intelligence Staff there would only number some 500.