Middle East Intelligence Centre. Scope Of: Memo. by Director of Military Intelligence, W.O. Note by Secy. Covering:

M.E.I.C., which serves the Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, would be concerning itself with intelligence to no useful purpose. At the sane time it would be necessary for some British Mission working in close contact with General Weygand to assume the task of co-ordinating intelligence in the Balkans. Thus the advent of war in the Balkans would cause a complete break in the continuity of British Intelligence in the Eastern Mediterranean. It is therefore proposed that the J.I.C. should submit a paper for consideration by Chiefs of Staff pointing out the difficulty of M.E.I.C.