An Operation Against Sicily. Note by the Secretary

A volume of reports commissioned for 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. A vast range of international and domestic issues are investigated and analysed in the JIC’s reports. Subjects covered in this file include the recruitment of agents from amongst Axis prisoner of war; the collection of intelligence from aliens and refugees in Britain; predictions of German strategy in the Soviet Union over the winter of 1941-42; planning for commando raids; situation reports from the German invasion of the Soviet Union; Axis strategy in North Africa; the Japanese declaration of war, and subsequent operations; rumours designed to weaken Axis morale; the Japanese threat to Burma and Indonesia; and the evacuation of British citizens from areas threatened by the Japanese.