SECRET If the information to be supplied was limited up to and ### the SECRET category, it would be necessary to omit most of the reliable information available and the results might be misleading; this, however, might be better than nothing. from which the necessary information was derived were delicate AIR COMMODORE BATES said that, whilst the United States would probably be in possession of the same information as ourselves, to disclose to the French our information on equipment supplies from other countries might lead to embarrassment, particularly if the French were to make use of this information in N.A.T.O.