A volume of meeting minutes of the Joint Intelligence Sub-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. The JIC members discussed a vast range of international and domestic issues in their meetings. In this file, subjects documented include the organisation of the British intelligence services; allied cooperation, including the sharing of intelligence; communications security, censorship, and the leakage of information; the escape and safety of allied prisoners in German captivity; arrangements for the occupation of Germany; German secret weapons; military situation reports; assessments of German military and economic strength, and Axis oil supplies; reconnaissance, aerial photography, and the collection of topographical intelligence; operational security for the invasion of Normandy; enemy morale; resistance movements; the effects of Allied bombing; and interpretation and interrogation.
- Collection ID
- CAB81
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Germany Sicily United Kingdom United States of America
- Document Reference
- CAB 81/92/3
- Document Types
- Summary
- File Reference
- CAB 81/92
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.cab81.0092.003
- Keywords
- Cyphers British Intelligence Organisation Prisoners Of War Collaborators Post-war Planning Security Publications Classified Documents Secret Topographical Intelligence Intelligence Gathering
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Foreign Office Government Code and Cypher School Intelligence Section (Operations) Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee Ministry of Economic Warfare Security Service
- Pages
- 6
- Persons Discussed
- Edward Bridges Denis Capel-Dunn Victor Cavendish-Bentinck Edward King-Salter Stewart Menzies Lawrence Pendred Edmund Rushbrooke Geoffrey Vickers
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Signals Intelligence Code-breaking Intelligence Organization Surveillance