Review of Intelligence Organisation in Germany

A volume of secretariat minutes of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC). The JIC was formed of representatives from the intelligence services, the armed services, and the Foreign Office. Its purpose was to assess military, security, and foreign policy requirements and coordinate Britain's intelligence organisations accordingly. Secretariat minutes were used to pass documents such as JIC sub-committee and working party reports and intelligence assessments to JIC members. Subjects covered in this file include evidence of Soviet contravention of the Potsdam Agreement; Yugoslavia's dispute with the Cominform; the security value of scrambling telephone communications in the United Kingdom; the censorship of British publications; Czechoslovakian provision of fighter aircraft to Israel; the meaning and application of security classifications; photographic survey requirements in the Middle East; proposals to establish a censorship ring around the Soviet Union; contingency plans for the evacuation of embassy staff; and the potential scale of air attacks on the U.K. in the event of war with the Soviet Union.