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1. Proposal to Establish a Cypher Policy Board; 2. Issue of Warning Regarding Allied Prisoners of War Suspected of Collaboration; 3. Post-War Security; 4. Marking of Documents Containing Information from Most Secret Sources; 5. Priority in Construction of Models for Cossac and S.E.A.C.; 6. Collection of Topographical Intelligence in Occupied Areas

1944

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.
security united kingdom united states of america germany prisoners of war publications surveillance sicily second world war signals intelligence security service secret intelligence gathering joint intelligence sub-committee chiefs of staff foreign office edward bridges british intelligence organisation intelligence organization stewart menzies ministry of economic warfare post-war planning intelligence section (operations) lawrence pendred victor cavendish-bentinck government code and cypher school denis capel-dunn code-breaking cyphers edmund rushbrooke geoffrey vickers edward king-salter topographical intelligence classified documents collaborators
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
Series
War Cabinet. Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee. Meetings. January - December 1944. Numbers 1-75. Volume VI
Themes
Signals Intelligence Code-breaking Intelligence Organization Surveillance

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