1. Joint Intelligence Bureau - Australia; 2. Organisation and Establishment of Intelligence Staff - South East Asia Command; 3. Lecturers for the Imperial Defence College; 4. Joint Intelligence Bureau - United Kingdom

REAR ADMIRAL RUSHBROOKE said that the matter had been considered in the Admiralty, and that a proposed draft reply had been prepared for his consideration. He read out the terms of this draft reply and undertook to circulate copies to the Sub-Committee. GENERAL STRONG said that in his experience integrated Intelligence Staffs had not proved satisfactory in that each Commander-in-Chief had to have his own Intelligence Staff, who tended to deal with the same matters as the Integrated staff. The system, whereby each Commander-in-Chief had his own Intelligence Staff, and a Joint Intelligence Committee and Joint Intelligence staff were formed from representatives of the Commanders-in-Chief's Staffs, was a much more practical proposition.