the Bureau, but some doubts were expressed as to the repercussions of its activities. He had gained the impression that the more ambitious scheme set out in Appendix I to Paper No. J.I.C. 79 might not prove acceptable to all Departments. In his letter dated the 6th January, 1939, he had put forward proposals for a much smaller organisation which might form a collecting centre in peace for intelligence in the whole of the Middle East, for the information of the local Military and Air Commanders in the Middle East, and for drawing up periodical intelligence summaries for circulation to the Service Departments, the Foreign Office, the India Office and the Colonial Office.
- Collection ID
- CAB56
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Egypt Great Britain India Palestine
- Document Reference
- CAB 56/1/23
- Document Types
- Summary
- File Reference
- CAB 56/1
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.cab56.0001.023
- Keywords
- Arab World Inter-services Cooperation British Intelligence Organisation Intelligence Services Responsibilities Information Sharing Intelligence Gathering Empire
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Committee of Imperial Defence Chiefs of Staff Foreign Office Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee
- Pages
- 6
- Persons Discussed
- Frederick Beaumont-Nesbitt Victor Cavendish-Bentinck Leslie Hollis Desmond Morton
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Series
- Committee of Imperial Defence, Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee Meetings, July 1936 - August 1939
- Themes
- Intelligence Organization Surveillance International Relations
