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.