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Document Title	Future of the Secret Services
Reference	CAB 301/11
Document Date	23 March 1943 - 9 March 1945
Conflicts	Second World War
Themes	Intelligence Organisation and Administration, Intelligence Operations, British Domestic Security
Regions	Africa, Atlantic, East Asia, Europe, Latin America, Mediterranean, Middle East, North America, Pacific, South Asia
Countries	Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Bermuda, British Honduras, Burma, Canada, China, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indochina, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaya, Malta, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Scotland, Siam, South Africa, Sweden, Trinidad, United Kingdom, United States of America, Yugoslavia
Document Type	Correspondence, Reports
Organisations	Abwehr, Central Intelligence Agency, Committee of Imperial Defence, Chiefs of Staff, Foreign Office, Geheime Staatspolizei, Government Code and Cypher School, Intelligence Section (Operations), Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee, Joint Intelligence Staff, Joint Planning Staff, League of Nations, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Economic Warfare, Naval Intelligence Division, New Scotland Yard, Political Warfare Executive, Secret Intelligence Service, Security Service, Services Liaison Department, South-East Asia Command, Special Operations Executive, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, United Nations
People	John Anderson, Nevile Bland, Edward Bridges, Norman Brook, Alexander Cadogan, Denis Capel-Dunn, Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, Eyre Crowe, Anthony Eden, Warren Fisher, Maurice Hankey, Leslie Hollis, Vernon Kell, Peter Loxley, Stewart Menzies, Roundell Palmer, David Petrie, Duncan Sandys, William Tyrrell

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Keywords

intelligence gathering, economic intelligence, British intelligence organisation, post-war planning, consular intelligence sources, intelligence distribution, economic warfare, special operations, security, propaganda, subversion, espionage, interrogation, police, counter-espionage, counter-intelligence, non-British agents, codes, communications, intelligence services responsibilities

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